What percentage of men in Canada are 6 feet tall?
Out Of Pocket TV · November 9, 2026
About 1 in 5 men in Canada is 6 feet (183 cm) or taller: 18.5% of men aged 18 to 80, or roughly 2.6 million men. That’s almost exactly the same as American men under 45, at 18.8%.
Here are Canada’s height odds, from the same calculator that runs the U.S. numbers, inch by inch and in centimeters, next to American men under 45.
Canadian men, inch by inch
Share and number of Canadian men aged 18 to 80 at or above each height, next to the share of U.S. men aged 18 to 44:
| Height | Canadian men | U.S. men under 45 |
|---|---|---|
| 5′8″ (173 cm) | 69% 9.47 million | 67% |
| 5′9″ (175 cm) | 55% 7.67 million | 54% |
| 5′10″ (178 cm) | 42% 5.78 million | 41% |
| 5′11″ (180 cm) | 29% (about 1 in 3) 4.01 million | 29% (about 1 in 3) |
| 6′0″ (183 cm) | 18% (about 1 in 5) 2.56 million | 19% (about 1 in 5) |
| 6′1″ (185 cm) | 11% (about 1 in 9) 1.48 million | 11% (about 1 in 9) |
| 6′2″ (188 cm) | 5.6% (about 1 in 18) 778,000 | 6.1% (about 1 in 16) |
| 6′3″ (191 cm) | 2.7% (about 1 in 37) 369,000 | 3.0% (about 1 in 33) |
| 6′4″ (193 cm) | 1.1% (about 1 in 88) 158,000 | 1.4% (about 1 in 73) |
| 6′5″ (196 cm) | 0.44% (about 1 in 230) 61,000 | 0.57% (about 1 in 180) |
Canadian women
Share and number of Canadian women aged 18 to 80 at or above each height:
| Height | Canadian women | Women |
|---|---|---|
| 5′4″ (163 cm) | 46% | 6.38 million |
| 5′5″ (165 cm) | 32% | 4.41 million |
| 5′6″ (168 cm) | 20% (about 1 in 5) | 2.76 million |
| 5′7″ (170 cm) | 11% (about 1 in 9) | 1.55 million |
| 5′8″ (173 cm) | 5.6% (about 1 in 18) | 779,000 |
| 5′9″ (175 cm) | 2.5% (about 1 in 40) | 348,000 |
| 5′10″ (178 cm) | 0.98% (about 1 in 100) | 137,000 |
| 6′0″ (183 cm) | 0.11% (about 1 in 950) | 15,000 |
How Canada compares
Share of men who are 6′0″ or taller:
| Country | 6′0″ or taller |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | 46% |
| Australia | 27% (about 1 in 4) |
| Ireland | 26% (about 1 in 4) |
| United Kingdom | 19% (about 1 in 5) |
| Canada | 18% (about 1 in 5) |
| United States, men under 45 | 19% (about 1 in 5) |
| United States, all men | 16% (about 1 in 6) |
| Mexico | 3.2% (about 1 in 31) |
What stands out
- The typical Canadian man is about 5′9½″ (176 cm). 55% of Canadian men are 5′9″ or taller and 42% are 5′10″ or taller, so a 5′10″ minimum rules out more than half.
- Canada, young America and the UK are all but tied. 18.5% of Canadian men are 6 feet or taller, against 18.8% of American men under 45 and 18.6% in the UK. Inch for inch, the Canadian and young American columns stay within 1.5 percentage points of each other at every height.
- From 6 feet up, each inch roughly halves the pool. About 1 Canadian man in 5 is 6′0″, 1 in 18 is 6′2″, about 1 in 88 is 6′4″ and about 1 in 230 is 6′5″.
- Australia and Ireland are taller, Mexico much shorter. Around 1 man in 4 is 6 feet or taller in Australia and Ireland. In Mexico it’s about 1 in 31. Canada comes 31st of the 177 countries with their own data.
- For women, 5′8″ is about 1 in 18. About 1 Canadian woman in 100 is 5′10″ or taller, and about 1 in 950 is 6 feet.
How these numbers are worked out
The Canadian figures are estimates, not a count of measured men. The calculator takes an average height and spread for Canadian adults (an average of about 5′9½″ for men and 5′4″ for women), drawn from Statistics Canada and WHO data, and fits a bell curve, the same way it treats every country outside the U.S. That curve is the same at every age, so it can’t show that younger men tend to be taller, and the tallest rows are the least certain. The U.S. figures come from the CDC’s measured health survey (NHANES 2021–2023) for each age group; older Americans measure shorter, which is why the fair comparison is with American men under 45. Countries close together in the table are effectively tied. Centimeters are rounded. See also the UK, Australia and every country ranked.
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