How tall was Hugo Chávez?

Hugo Chávez is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).

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Hugo Chávez’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 39 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Hugo Chávez beside others

Hugo Chávez is in the middle of the 108 politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 12 in (30.2 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 1 ft 2 in (36 cm) shorter.

Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Éric Zemmour and Tarō Asō.

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5 ft 8 in (173 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Roberto Stuckert Filho, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Hugo Chávez, 5 ft 8 in (173 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)