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.
Tarō Asō is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Tarō Asō’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 39 in 100 US men are shorter.
Tarō Asō 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: Hugo Chávez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Éric Zemmour.
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: Cabinet Public Relations Office of the Cabinet Secretariat, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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| APA | Heightvs. (2026, November 3). Tarō Asō height: 5 ft 8 in (173 cm), drawn beside you. https://heightvs.com/how-tall/taro-aso |
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