Average penis size in Italy 🇮🇹

The figure comes from Ponchietti et al., Eur Urol, 2001, which measured 3,300 men. Method: measured by one examiner (median).

This study didn't record a bone-pressed measurement, so it reads roughly a centimetre lower than a bone-pressed study of the same men would. Compare this row against a bone-pressed one and part of what you're seeing is the ruler.

With 3,300 men measured, this is one of the better-powered figures in the game.

Ponchietti's sample was 3,300 Italian men aged 17 to 19, screened to exclude endocrine disorders and congenital or acquired abnormalities of the penis. That age band is the caveat rather than the sample size: these are men at the very end of adolescence, and a figure drawn from 17-to-19-year-olds is not straightforwardly an adult population mean. It is one of the largest samples on the site, which makes the number precise — but precision about a narrow age band is still precision about a narrow age band.

Italy ranks #16 of the 24 countries in the game. That is 0.27 cm below 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.

Italy has been the daily puzzle 2 times so far. Each of those days has its own archive page.

It doesn't describe any individual man from Italy. 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.