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About 14% to 15.8% of adult US men are over6 foot tall. They are 1 standard deviation above themean or more. There are about 120 million men over 18 in theUS. That makes about 17–18.9 million adult men in theUS are over 6 foot tall.
Subsequently, one may also ask, what percentage of men are 6 foot or taller?
In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of allmen are six feet or over. Among CEOs of Fortune 500companies, that number is 58 percent. Even more strikingly,in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adultmen are 6'2" or taller.
Consequently, what is the average height for men?
The average height for men has been tracked overthe years and has been increasing. Looking at the broadaverage across the United States, the National Center forHealth Statistics has reported that the average height foran adult male is 69.1 inches (175.4 centimeters), or roughly5 feet 9 inches.
But Robert Wadlow's name is now known all over the globe– the towering American who measured a staggering 2.72 m(8 ft 11.1 in) tall when last measured on 27 June1940, becoming the tallest man in the world.