Average penis size in United States 🇺🇸
What the published literature reports for United States, which study it comes from, and how much weight that figure can carry.
United States is in play right now, so the figure is withheld on this page. It comes back once the puzzle has moved on — usually within a day or two.
The figure
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United States is today's puzzle, or was yesterday, or is tomorrow's. Publishing the number here would hand the answer to anyone who searched for it, so it is hidden for three days around its turn in the rotation.
Play today's puzzleThe study behind it
The figure comes from Wessells et al., J Urol, 1996, which measured 80 men. Method: measured by one examiner.
This study did not record a bone-pressed measurement, which means it will read roughly a centimetre lower than a bone-pressed study of the same men. When you compare this row against a bone-pressed one, part of what you are seeing is the ruler.
With 80 men measured, this is one of the smaller samples in the game and the figure should be read as noisier than the rows resting on thousands.
What this figure is not
It is not a description of any individual man from United States. The spread between individual men inside a single country is several times larger than the gap between any two countries on this list, which means a national average carries almost no information about a person.
It is also not medical advice or a benchmark to measure yourself against. If size is something you have 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.