Philippines: How Tall is the Filipino Woman?

According to this 2008 study, the Filipino woman's average height is 151.8 cm. or 4' 11.8".

To have some perspective here are the heights of women from some other countries:




Canada - 161.0 cm. or 5' 3.4"

China - 158.6 cm or 5' 2.5"

Czech Republic - 167.3 cm or 5' 6"

France - 161.9 cm or 5' 3.7"

Germany - 165 cm or 5' 4.9"

Guatemala (Mayan) - 142.2 cm or 4'6"

Indonesia - 147 cm or 4'10"

East Indonesia (Bali) - 151.3 cm or 4'11.5"

S. Korea - 162.56 cm or 5' 4"

US - 164.1 cm or 5' 4.6"


You can check a more comprehensive site here, but you can see that Filipino women are among the shorter women in the world, at least in 2008. Clearly the statuesque beauty queens the Philippines sends to pageants are not of the norm.

Picture of Ariella Hernanez Arida, 2013 Miss Universe-Philippines holder and third runner-up in the Miss University contest, is courtesy of Wikipedia

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This is all for now,
Cecilia