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From Preliminary Human Factors Guidelines for Traffic Management Centers (July 1999) FHWA, U.S. DoT

Males (North America)
	5th %	50th	95th
Stature	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 3 ⁵⁄₈″ 161.5 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 8 ¹⁄₄″ 173.5 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">6′  ³⁄₄″ 185 ㎝
Eye height	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′  ³⁄₄″ 154 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 4 ³⁄₄″ 164 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 8 ⁵⁄₈″ 174 ㎝
Sitting height	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">2′ 9 ¹⁄₄″ 84 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">2′ 11 ³⁄₄″ 90 ㎝	3′ 2″ 96 ㎝
Body width	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">1′ 6 ³⁄₄″ 48 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">1′ 8 ⁷⁄₈″ 53 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">1′ 10 ³⁄₄″ 58 ㎝

Females (North America)
	5th %	50th	95th
Stature	4′ 11″ 150 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 2 ⁷⁄₈″ 160 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 7 ¹⁄₈″ 170.5 ㎝
Eye height	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">4′ 9 ¹⁄₄″ 146 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′  ¹⁄₄″ 153 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">5′ 5 ¹⁄₄″ 166 ㎝
Sitting height	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">2′ 6 ⁷⁄₈″ 78 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">2′ 9 ³⁄₈″ 84 ㎝	<span data-sort-value="Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "′".">2′ 11 ³⁄₄″ 90 ㎝

When people stand normally (i.e., with some slump), eye height lowers ∼1.6″ (4.1 ㎝) for males and ∼1.2″ (3.0 ㎝) for females.

Extrapolating from the data, male/female eye height is ∼95%/∼97% of stature, and body width is ∼30% of stature.

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+| {{frac|5′ 3|5|8}}″<br>161.5&#8239;㎝
-| {{frac|5′ 8|1|4}}″<br>173&#8239;㎝
+| {{frac|5′ 8|1|4}}″<br>173.5&#8239;㎝
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-| {{frac|1′ 10|3|4}}″<br>57&#8239;㎝
+| {{frac|1′ 10|3|4}}″<br>58&#8239;㎝
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+| {{frac|5′ 7|1|8}}″<br>170.5&#8239;㎝
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 | Eye height