Height percentile calculator: how tall are you, really?
Enter your height, sex and country in How tall are you, really? above. The calculator uses the country average and a standard deviation of about 7 cm to estimate your percentile, then makes a shareable card.
What a height percentile means
A percentile tells you what share of people are shorter than you. If you are at the 80th percentile, you are taller than 80 out of 100 adults of your sex in that country. Adult height follows a bell curve closely: most people are within 7 cm of the average, and only about 1 in 40 is more than 14 cm above it.
Why the country changes the answer
Average height differs by more than 20 cm between countries. A 175 cm man is taller than about 7 in 10 men worldwide, about 4 in 10 in the United States and only about 1 in 10 in the Netherlands, where the average man is around 184 cm. The calculator uses national averages from measured surveys and the same spread for every country.
Limits of the estimate
- It applies to adults: children should be compared with growth charts for their age.
- Self-reported heights are usually 1 to 2 cm too generous, so measure yourself before trusting the result.
- Percentiles near the extremes (below 1 or above 99) are rough, because real populations have slightly more very tall and very short people than a perfect bell curve.
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