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Adult height calculator

How tall am I compared with other men?

Enter an adult age and height. The calculator estimates a percentile between published NCHS measurement points.

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Adults 20 and older

69 inches is the median, not a requirement.

For U.S. men age 20 and older, the measured 50th percentile was 69.0 inches. The 10th to 90th percentile range was 65.0 to 72.7 inches.

Why age groups differ: These are cross-sectional data. Differences can reflect aging, cohort differences, and sampling, not one person’s height trajectory.

Measured distribution

Adult male height by age

The shaded band runs from the 10th to 90th percentiles. The dark line is the median.

10th percentileMedian90th percentile

5′7″

About the 25th percentile for all U.S. men age 20+ in the current measured table.

5′9″

The all-adult median. Half of the measured distribution was below and half above.

6′0″

Between the 75th and 85th percentiles for the all-adult reference group.

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