How tall is the average US man?

Average US man at true scale

The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics reports a measured average height of 68.9 in (1.75 m) for US men aged 20 and older and 63.5 in (1.61 m) for women. The game uses these averages as human-scale references.

Compared with familiar things

• The average US man is about 1.5× an emperor penguin (1.15 m · 3.77 ft).
• The average US man is almost exactly the size of the average US woman (1.61 m · 5.29 ft).
• The average US man is almost exactly the size of a Velociraptor (1.8 m · 5.91 ft).
• The average US man is about 43% of a Volkswagen Beetle 1300 (4.07 m · 13.4 ft).

Can you guess it by eye?

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What is measured

Average height, adult men: 1.75 m · 5.74 ft. CDC NCHS: measured average height for US men aged 20 and older, 68.9 inches.

Source: CDC NCHS — Body Measurements. Checked 2026-09-28. The silhouette is scaled so this measurement is exact; its other proportions are illustrative.