Is 5 ft 11 tall?

5 ft 11 in by group

Percentile is the share of the group shorter than this height. “1 in X” counts the rarer side: people at or beyond this value above the median, at or under it below. Percentiles are estimated from a normal distribution with each group's mean and standard deviation.

What this means

• In a room of 100 men from around the world, about 12 would be taller than 5 ft 11 in and 88 shorter.
• Across the 186 countries in our data, 5 ft 11 in stands out most in the Philippines, where it is taller than over 99% of men, and least in the Netherlands, where it is taller than 38%.
• For a woman, 5 ft 11 in is above the 99th percentile worldwide. The global mean is 159.0 cm for women and 171.0 cm for men, a gap of 12.0 cm.

Questions

Is 5 ft 11 tall for a man?

5 ft 11 in is taller than 88% of men worldwide, 67% of men in the United States and 54% of men in Norway. That counts as tall in most countries.

Is 5 ft 11 tall for a woman?

For women, 5 ft 11 in is above the 99th percentile worldwide and the 99th percentile in the United States. The global mean for women is 159.0 cm (5 ft 3 in), so 5 ft 11 in is 21.3 cm above it.

What is 5 ft 11 in cm?

5 ft 11 in is 180.3 cm, which rounds to 180 cm. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm, so 71 inches is 180.34 cm.

How rare is 5 ft 11?

Worldwide, about 1 in 8 men are at least 5 ft 11 in, and 1 in 451 women. In Norway it is 1 in 2 men, in the United States 1 in 3.