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Type "am I tall for a woman" into Google and you get a wall of numbers with no context. One page says the average woman is 5 feet 4 inches. Another says 160 cm. A third ranks the Netherlands first and leaves out your country entirely. None of them tell you which figure to trust when you are filling in a medical form, buying jeans online from a US store, or reading a European size chart. This guide fixes that. Below you will find the real, sourced average female height by country, the difference between a national teen ranking and an adult average (they are not the same), and fast conversions so a number in centimeters becomes feet and inches in one click.

Here is the short answer first. The average adult woman worldwide stands roughly 159 to 161 cm, which is about 5 feet 3 inches. In the United States the average is 161.3 cm, or 5'3.5", measured by the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey over August 2021 to August 2023. In the United Kingdom it is close to 161.7 cm, about 5'3.7", from the measured 2019 wave of the Health Survey for England. The tallest women on record live in the Netherlands. The shortest averages appear in parts of Central America and South Asia. Keep reading for the full picture and the numbers behind each claim.

Every figure on this page names its dataset and its measurement year, because that is the single detail that decides whether two numbers actually disagree. Country rankings come from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) pooled analysis published in The Lancet in November 2020, which covers 200 countries and reports height at exact age 19 for the year 2019. National adult averages come from each country's own body-measurement programme.

What is the average female height by country in 2026?

The average female height by country ranges from about 150 cm (4'11") in the shortest nations to 170 cm (5'7") in the tallest. Dutch women lead the world at 170.4 cm for 19-year-olds in the 2019 NCD-RisC data. US adult women average 161.3 cm (5'3.5") and UK adult women 161.7 cm (5'3.7"). Most of Europe and East Asia sits between 160 and 168 cm, so the "typical" woman a US or EU reader pictures is around 5'3" to 5'6".

The single most useful thing to understand here is that height data comes in two flavors, and mixing them causes most of the confusion online. The first is a country ranking of 19-year-olds, published by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, or NCD-RisC. The second is an adult national average, which folds in every age group and is usually a little lower because older generations were shorter. When a headline says "Dutch women are the tallest," it almost always means the 19-year-old figure. When your doctor's chart says the average is 5'4", it usually means the adult average. Both are correct. They just answer different questions.

I keep both separate in this article on purpose. It is the detail nearly every listicle gets wrong, and it is the reason two "official" sources can disagree by three centimeters and both be right. The gap is not sloppiness; it is a cohort effect. A country whose girls gained six centimeters in forty years will always show a taller teen figure than adult figure, because the adult number still contains the women who were born before the gains arrived.

What is the average height of women in the United States?

The average height of adult women in the United States is 161.3 cm, which is 5 feet 3.5 inches. That figure comes from the CDC's national health survey of adults aged 20 and over, measured directly rather than self-reported, in the August 2021 to August 2023 NHANES cycle. It has barely moved in two decades, unlike weight, which has risen. So when a US clothing brand designs for a "standard" woman, 5'3" to 5'4" is the baseline they use.

The CDC publishes the number as 63.5 inches, and 63.5 multiplied by 2.54 is exactly 161.29 cm, which is why you see it rounded to 161.3 everywhere. The US number is worth pinning down because so much sizing depends on it. American inseam charts, "petite" and "tall" cutoffs, and even car seat and airline ergonomics assume a median woman near 5'4". You can check any value yourself with the 161.3 cm to feet tool, which shows the feet-and-inches breakdown instantly, or run the whole calculation through the general-purpose height converter when you need metres, centimetres, feet and inches side by side.

Note that the 19-year-old figure for the US is higher, at 163.3 cm (5'4.3") in the 2019 NCD-RisC data. Both numbers are real. The 161.3 cm figure describes every American woman over 20; the 163.3 cm figure describes only the youngest cohort of adults.

One honest caveat. The US average blends a hugely diverse population. Regional and demographic averages vary by several centimeters, so "the average American woman" is a statistical middle, not a description of anyone in particular. Treat it as a reference point, not a verdict on your own height.

Which country has the tallest women in the world?

The Netherlands has the tallest women in the world. Dutch 19-year-olds averaged 170.4 cm, or 5'7.1", in 2019 according to NCD-RisC. Montenegro, Denmark, Iceland, and Latvia follow closely, all clustered between 168 and 170 cm. This tall band runs through Northern and Eastern Europe, driven by generations of strong nutrition, dairy-rich diets, and good public health.

Amsterdam is often used as shorthand for this. Walk through a Dutch supermarket and the top shelves genuinely sit higher than in a US store. The gap is real, not folklore. What surprises people is how tightly the top of the ranking bunches. The difference between first and fifth place is 1.6 cm, which is less than the thickness of most shoe soles. So calling any one nation "the tallest" is fair for the Netherlands but slightly overstated for the countries just behind it.

For a value near the top of the range, 170.4 cm converts to 5'7.1". You can confirm it with the 170.4 cm to feet converter, and the round 170 cm to feet page gives you 5'6.9" for a cleaner benchmark. If a Dutch or German form asks for your height in metres instead, the meters to feet tool goes the other way from 1.70 m.

What are the average female height by country numbers, ranked?

Below is a ranking of 19-year-old women by country, drawn from the NCD-RisC pooled analysis published in The Lancet (2020), with heights as measured in 2019. These are the figures behind every "tallest women" headline. Each centimeter value includes the correct feet-and-inches conversion, calculated at exactly 1 inch equals 2.54 cm and rounded to one decimal inch. Use them as a comparison scale, not as a score for any individual.

Rank	Country	Height (cm)	Feet & inches	Total inches
1	Netherlands	170.4	5'7.1"	67.09
2	Montenegro	170.0	5'6.9"	66.93
3	Denmark	169.5	5'6.7"	66.73
4	Iceland	168.9	5'6.5"	66.50
5	Latvia	168.8	5'6.5"	66.46
6	Estonia	168.7	5'6.4"	66.42
7	Serbia	168.3	5'6.3"	66.26
8	Czechia	168.0	5'6.1"	66.14
—	Germany	166.2	5'5.4"	65.43
—	Australia	164.7	5'4.8"	64.84
—	United Kingdom	163.9	5'4.5"	64.53
—	China	163.5	5'4.4"	64.37
—	United States	163.3	5'4.3"	64.29
—	South Korea	163.2	5'4.3"	64.25
—	Brazil	162.4	5'3.9"	63.94
—	Spain	162.0	5'3.8"	63.78
—	Japan	158.0	5'2.2"	62.20
—	Mexico	158.0	5'2.2"	62.20
—	India	152.6	5'0.1"	60.08
—	Timor-Leste	152.3	5'0.0"	59.96
—	Bangladesh	152.1	4'11.9"	59.88
—	Nepal	150.9	4'11.4"	59.41
—	Guatemala	150.9	4'11.4"	59.41
—	Philippines	149.6	4'10.9"	58.90

Rows 1 to 8 are the global top eight; the rest are reference points chosen to span the range rather than to rank. These are teen (19-year-old) figures, so treat them as the ceiling of each country's typical range. For quick spot checks, the 169.5 cm to feet, 168.9 cm to feet, and 150.9 cm to feet pages reproduce the exact conversions above. If you prefer a full lookup grid, the cm-to-feet conversion table lists hundreds of values in one place.

One caution on the bottom of the table. Guatemala is usually named the shortest country for women, and it appears at 150.9 cm in the 2019 nineteen-year-old data. The older NCD-RisC adult series, which tracks people by year of birth rather than by year of measurement, puts Guatemalan women born in 1996 at 149.4 cm. Both numbers come from the same collaboration; they simply count different cohorts. Whenever you see a Guatemala figure between 149 and 151 cm, that is the reason.

Why are some countries so much taller than others?

Countries differ in average female height mainly because of nutrition, childhood health, and long-run living standards, not genetics alone. Genes set the potential. Diet and disease decide how much of that potential a girl reaches by adulthood. That is why Dutch women grew about 20 cm taller over 150 years while their gene pool barely changed.

Four forces do most of the work. Protein and calcium in early childhood build bone. Low rates of childhood infection let the body spend energy on growth rather than fighting illness. Stable food supply across generations compounds the gains. And demographics matter too, because a younger population skews the adult average upward. This is the mechanism the NCD-RisC and the eLife open-access study documented across roughly 200 countries and a full century of records. You can read the underlying analysis in the NCD-RisC eLife 2016 study, which remains the most cited data set on the subject.

The 2020 Lancet follow-up sharpened the point by measuring school-age children as well as 19-year-olds. It found roughly a 20 cm gap between the tallest and shortest national averages for 19-year-old girls, and showed that a large share of that gap opens during the school years rather than in infancy. Nutrition between ages five and nineteen, in other words, is not a rounding error.

The contrarian takeaway most articles skip: height is a public-health scoreboard, not a beauty ranking. When a country's women get taller over decades, it usually signals better food security and healthcare, not "superior" biology. Reading the table that way is far more useful than treating it as a leaderboard. If you want a companion health metric rather than a comparison, height combined with weight in the BMI calculator tells you far more about an individual than a national average ever will.

What is the average height of women in Korea and East Asia?

The average height of women in South Korea is 163.2 cm, or 5'4.3", for 19-year-olds in the 2019 NCD-RisC data. Korea's own KNHANES survey puts women aged 20 to 22 at about 161.5 cm (5'3.6"), and all-ages adult averages run lower still because older cohorts were much shorter. Korean women gained more height over the past 60 years than almost any population on Earth, a direct result of rapid improvements in nutrition and healthcare.

Korea is worth calling out because its rise is the clearest modern example of the nutrition-drives-height rule, and because it shows the cohort effect at its most extreme. Within living memory, average heights climbed sharply as the country's diet and healthcare transformed, which is exactly why the Korean teen figure and the Korean all-ages figure sit further apart than in, say, Denmark. For shoppers and size charts, the practical point is that young Korean women now sit in the same band as Western Europe and North America, so a 163 cm reference lines up neatly with a US 5'4". Check the exact figure with the 163 cm to feet converter.

Across the rest of East Asia the 2019 nineteen-year-old averages run from about 158 cm in Japan to 163.5 cm in China, with urban, younger cohorts at the taller end. As with everywhere else, the teen ranking sits a touch above the all-ages adult average.

How does the average female height by country compare across Europe?

Europe holds both the tallest women on the planet and a wide internal spread. The Northern and Baltic band, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, and Latvia, tops 168 cm at age 19. Southern Europe, including Spain at 162.0 cm, tends to average nearer 162 to 164 cm. UK adults sit at about 161.7 cm (5'3.7"). So a single "European average" is misleading, because the continent spans roughly 8 cm from top to bottom.

For a European reader, that spread has real consequences. A "medium" garment cut for a Dutch or Danish customer runs long on the average Spanish or British woman. This is exactly why EU size labels and US size labels rarely line up, and why converting a height rather than trusting a size letter saves returns. The cm to meters tool is handy here too, since European medical and official forms often ask for height in meters rather than centimeters, and the reverse meters to cm page turns a 1.62 m entry back into 162 cm. Tailors and pattern-makers who work in millimetres can use mm to cm for the same reason.

Reference	Height	Source and measurement year
United States, adult women 20+	161.3 cm / 5'3.5"	CDC NHANES, August 2021 to August 2023
United Kingdom, adult women (England)	161.7 cm / 5'3.7"	Health Survey for England 2019, measured
South Korea, women aged 20 to 22	161.5 cm / 5'3.6"	KNHANES
United States, women aged 19	163.3 cm / 5'4.3"	NCD-RisC, measured 2019
United Kingdom, women aged 19	163.9 cm / 5'4.5"	NCD-RisC, measured 2019
South Korea, women aged 19	163.2 cm / 5'4.3"	NCD-RisC, measured 2019

Notice these adult averages sit below the 19-year-old ranking figures for the same three countries, by roughly 1.7 to 2.2 cm. That is the age-group effect in action, and the two datasets are published separately for good reason. National body-measurement programs like the CDC's confirm the US figure directly. You can see the source data on the CDC body measurement page.

Why do height statistics differ between sources?

Height statistics differ because sources measure different groups, different years, and different methods. Some report 19-year-olds, some report all adults. Some measure people directly, some rely on self-reported numbers, which run a little high. Round to the nearest centimeter or half-inch and you get another small gap. None of this means the data is wrong. It means you should always check what each figure actually counts.

Three questions clear up almost every discrepancy. Whose height is this, teens or all adults? What year, since younger generations are usually taller? And was it measured or self-reported? Once you answer those, a "163 versus 161" disagreement stops looking like an error and starts looking like two honest answers to two different questions. The Health Survey for England makes the point neatly: its measured 2019 figure for women was 161.7 cm, while its adjusted self-reported 2021 figure was 162.4 cm. Same country, two years apart, different method. For a broad, well-curated overview across time, Our World in Data maintains an accessible summary in its human height data explorer.

How do I convert my height from centimeters to feet and inches?

To convert centimeters to feet and inches, divide the centimeters by 2.54 to get total inches, then divide by 12. The whole number is your feet, the remainder is your inches. For example, 165 cm divided by 2.54 is 64.96 inches, which is 5 feet 5 inches. That is the exact math every reliable converter uses, because 1 inch equals 2.54 cm by definition.

Here is the procedure in full, using the US average of 161.3 cm as the worked example.

1. Divide the centimeter value by 2.54 to get total inches. 161.3 ÷ 2.54 = 63.50 inches.
2. Divide the total inches by 12 and keep the whole number. 63.50 ÷ 12 = 5.29, so the answer starts with 5 feet.
3. Multiply those whole feet by 12 and subtract. 5 × 12 = 60, and 63.50 − 60 = 3.50 inches.
4. Write the two parts together. 161.3 cm is 5 feet 3.5 inches, or 5'3.5".
5. Round only at the very end. Rounding 63.50 to 64 inches first would push you to 5'4" and lose half an inch.

You do not need to do it by hand. The cm to feet converter handles any value, and the reverse feet to cm converter works when a European form wants centimeters and you only know feet and inches. For finer needs, the cm to inches and inches to cm tools give the plain inch value, while feet to inches and inches to feet cover the last mile. When the form wants metres and you only know feet, feet to meters closes that gap. Bookmark whichever one matches the form in front of you.

A worked example many readers ask about: 165 cm converts to 5 feet 5 inches, a very common European and Korean average. If you want the theory behind the inch-based side of these conversions, the inches to cm conversion guide walks through it step by step.

How do women actually use average height numbers?

Most people search for average female height for three practical reasons: buying clothes or shoes across US and EU sizing, filling in medical or fitness forms, and reading sports or modeling profiles. In every case the goal is the same, translating a number into a size or a percentile without guessing. Getting the conversion right the first time avoids returns, form errors, and awkward re-measuring.

Take online shopping. A US size 8 dress and an EU size 38 are cut for slightly different average bodies, and height changes where a hemline lands more than the size letter does. Knowing that roughly 161 cm is the US and UK adult middle helps you judge whether a "regular" length will hit at the knee or the shin. In sport, height percentiles explain roster patterns without any mystique. And on official forms, the difference between 5'3.5" and 5'4" is trivial, so round sensibly and move on. The numbers are tools, not tests.

Is 5 feet 7 inches tall for a woman?

Yes, 5'7" is tall for a woman in most countries. That is exactly 170.18 cm, which is within a quarter of a centimeter of the Dutch 19-year-old average of 170.4 cm, the tallest national figure on record. In the US and UK, where the adult average is about 5'3.5" to 5'3.7", a woman at 5'7" stands roughly three and a half inches above average and sits comfortably in the upper range.

Context still matters. In a room of Dutch or Montenegrin 19-year-olds, 5'7" is simply average. In a US or Korean setting it reads as clearly tall. This is the whole point of comparing average female height by country rather than chasing one global number. "Tall" is relative to the crowd, and the crowd changes with geography.

Related height conversions

These quick tools pair naturally with everything above. Use them to turn any figure in this guide into the unit your form, chart, or shopping cart needs.

• 161.3 cm to feet gives 5'3.5", the US adult women's average.
• 163 cm to feet gives 5'4.2", close to the Korean and US teen figures.
• 165 cm to feet gives 5'5.0", a common European figure.
• 170 cm to feet gives 5'6.9", near the Dutch top of the range.

Curious how these compare to men? See the companion guide on the average male height by country for the same treatment applied to men's data. The gap between the two is remarkably consistent worldwide, usually about 12 to 14 cm.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average height of a woman?

The average adult woman worldwide is roughly 159 to 161 cm, or about 5 feet 3 inches. The exact figure depends on the country and whether the data counts all adults or only 19-year-olds. In the US and UK the adult average sits close to 161 cm, which is 5'3.5" to 5'3.7".

What is the average female height in the US?

The average height of adult women in the United States is 161.3 cm, which converts to 5 feet 3.5 inches. That comes from the CDC's national body-measurement survey (NHANES) of women aged 20 and over, covering August 2021 to August 2023. It has stayed almost flat for two decades, so it is a reliable US sizing baseline.

Which country has the tallest women?

The Netherlands has the tallest women, with 19-year-olds averaging 170.4 cm, or 5'7.1", in the 2019 NCD-RisC data. Montenegro (170.0 cm), Denmark (169.5 cm), Iceland (168.9 cm), and Latvia (168.8 cm) follow within two centimeters. The tall band runs mainly through Northern and Eastern Europe.

Which country has the shortest women?

Guatemala has the shortest average for women, at 150.9 cm, or 4'11.4", among 19-year-olds in 2019; the older adult-cohort series puts women born in 1996 at 149.4 cm. Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines sit in the same band. These lower figures track historic gaps in childhood nutrition and health rather than genetics, and most have been slowly rising.

What is the average height of women in Korea?

South Korean 19-year-olds averaged 163.2 cm, about 5'4.3", in the 2019 NCD-RisC data, while Korea's own KNHANES survey puts women aged 20 to 22 near 161.5 cm (5'3.6"). Korea's average rose dramatically over the past 60 years as diet and healthcare improved, so young cohorts now sit in the same band as Western Europe and North America.

How do I convert my height from cm to feet?

Divide your height in centimeters by 2.54 to get total inches, then divide by 12. The whole number is feet and the remainder is inches. For example, 165 cm is 5 feet 5 inches. The cm to feet converter does this instantly for any value, and the feet to cm tool reverses it.

Why do height statistics differ between sources?

Sources differ because they measure different groups, years, and methods. Some report 19-year-olds and some report all adults, who average shorter. Some measure directly while others use self-reported numbers, which run high. Rounding adds a small gap too. Always check what a figure counts before comparing.

Is 5 feet 7 inches tall for a woman?

Yes, 5'7" (170.18 cm) is tall for a woman almost everywhere. It sits within a quarter of a centimeter of the Dutch 19-year-old average and stands about three and a half inches above the US and UK adult averages of roughly 5'3.5" to 5'3.7". Only within the very tallest national populations would 5'7" read as merely average.

Are these figures for teenagers or all adults?

The country ranking table reports height at exact age 19, measured in 2019, from the NCD-RisC pooled analysis published in The Lancet in 2020. The national reference table reports all-ages or young-adult figures from each country's own survey. Teen figures run about 1.7 to 2.2 cm above adult figures in the US, UK and Korea, so never compare a number from one table against a number from the other.

Conclusion

The honest summary is simple. There is no single "average woman," only a range that runs from about 4'11" in the shortest countries to 5'7" in the Netherlands, with US and UK adults sitting near 5'3.5" to 5'3.7" and young Korean women close to 5'4.3". The trick is knowing which number you are looking at, a teen country ranking or an all-ages adult average, so you never compare apples to oranges again. Bookmark the cm to feet converter, keep the country table handy for context, and remember that these figures describe populations, not people. My prediction for the next decade: the shortest-country averages keep rising as nutrition improves, while the tall band barely moves, because it is already near the biological ceiling. What number were you actually trying to place, your own or someone else's? Run it through the converter and you will have the answer in seconds.