Average penis size in France 🇫🇷

The figure comes from Bondil et al., Eur Urol, 1992, which measured 905 men. Method: bone-pressed, stretched three times.

Note the method. This study pressed the ruler into the pubic bone, which captures the buried portion of the shaft and records roughly a centimetre more than a study resting the ruler on the skin, on the same man. A good part of the distance between this row and the lower-ranked ones comes from that decision rather than from the populations.

A sample of 905 men puts this in the mid-range of the studies used here.

The French figure is the highest in the game by a wide margin, and the reason is method rather than geography. Bondil measured 905 urology patients with a mean age of 53, using a flexible ruler and recording the maximum of three successive stretches. Other researchers have since criticised that stretching technique directly. Read this number as the product of an unusually aggressive protocol applied to an older clinical population — not as evidence that French men differ from their neighbours.

France ranks #1 of the 24 countries in the game. That is 3.97 cm above the median of this list (12.77 cm).

Both of those comparisons are against a list of two dozen countries chosen by which studies exist, not by any sampling of the world. Treat the rank as a fact about this dataset rather than a fact about the planet.

France has been the daily puzzle 3 times so far. Each of those days has its own archive page.

It doesn't describe any individual man from France. The spread between individual men inside a single country runs several times larger than the gap between any two countries on this list, so a national average carries almost no information about a person.

Nor is it medical advice, or a benchmark to measure yourself against. If size is something you've been worrying about, the guide on what the pooled data actually shows is a more useful page than this one, and a doctor is more useful than either.