Am I tall? Height percentile calculator
Enter your height, pick your sex and country, and see exactly where you fall — the percentage of people you’re taller than, and how you look next to the average, to scale.
You’re taller than 56% of men in United States.
That puts you in the 56th percentile — right around average. You're about 1 cm (0.4 in) taller than the average man there.
What your height percentile means
Your height percentile is simply the share of people you’re taller than. Being in the 90th percentile means you’re taller than 90% of people your sex in your country; the 50th percentile is dead average. It’s a more useful answer than a raw number, because “tall” means something very different in the Netherlands than it does in the Philippines.
How tall is “tall”?
Adult height follows a bell curve, so a few simple rules of thumb hold almost everywhere:
- Average (50th percentile) — your country’s average height.
- Tallest ~15% (85th percentile) — about 7 cm (nearly 3 inches) above average.
- Tallest ~2% (98th percentile) — about 14 cm (around 5.5 inches) above average.
- The same gaps below the average mark “below average” and “short.”
For an average American man (177 cm / 5’10"), that means 184 cm (6’0") already sits in the tallest ~15%, and 191 cm (6’3") is in the tallest ~2%.
How this calculator works
We take your country’s average height for your sex and model the population as a normal distribution with a standard deviation of about 7 cm for men and 6.5 cm for women — values that hold remarkably steady across countries. Your percentile is the share of that bell curve below your height. National averages come from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), drawn from more than 2,000 population studies of young adults. Results are estimates for fun and context — not a medical measurement.
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Height percentile — FAQ
- What is a height percentile?
- Your height percentile is the percentage of people you are taller than. If you are in the 75th percentile, you are taller than 75% of people (of the same sex, in your country) and shorter than 25%. The 50th percentile is exactly average.
- Is 6 feet (183 cm) tall for a man?
- Yes, mildly. In most Western countries the average man is around 175-178 cm (5'9"-5'10"), so 183 cm (6'0") sits near the 80th-85th percentile - taller than roughly 4 out of 5 men. In the Netherlands, the world's tallest country, it is closer to average.
- What height is considered tall?
- As a rule of thumb, being about 7 cm (nearly 3 inches) above your country's average puts you in the tallest ~15%, and about 14 cm above puts you in the tallest ~2%. Exactly how tall that is depends on where you live - use the calculator above for your country.
- How is height percentile calculated?
- Adult height follows a normal (bell-curve) distribution. We take your country's average height for your sex and a standard deviation of about 7 cm for men and 6.5 cm for women, then calculate what share of people fall below your height on that curve.
- Where does the average-height data come from?
- The national average heights come from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), a global network of health scientists, based on more than 2,000 population studies of young adults. Individual results are estimates, not a medical measurement.