Q1: Is 5'6 considered short, average, or tall?
A1: It depends entirely on biological sex and geography. For adult women, 5'6 (167.64 cm) is universally above average, placing them in roughly the 75th percentile in Western countries. For adult men, it is below the North American median of 5'9, but aligns with or exceeds male averages across several East Asian, South Asian, and Latin American nations.
Q2: Why do some conversion charts say 167 cm while others say 168 cm?
A2: The exact conversion is 167.64 cm. Because the decimal point (.64) is greater than 0.5, standard mathematical rules dictate rounding up to the nearest whole integer: 168 cm. Charts displaying 167 cm have simply truncated the decimal instead of applying proper rounding.
Q3: How many inches is 5'6, and how do I write it in other metric formats?
A3: 5'6 equals exactly 66 inches. In metric representations, it can be written as 167.64 centimeters, 1.6764 meters, or 1,676.4 millimeters.