Average penis size in Vietnam 🇻🇳
The published average stretched penile length for Vietnam is 14.67 cm (5.78 in), from Nguyen Hoai et al., Andrology, 2021 (14,597 men). That's 1.74 cm above the worldwide average of 12.93 cm. Stretched length is the flaccid penis extended to full length and measured from the pubic bone to the tip, which is the measure urology studies report.
The figure
Stretched length · Vietnam
14.67 cm
5.78 in
That's 1.74 cm above the worldwide average of 12.93 cm.
Higher than 83% of the 24 countries in the game.
Source: Nguyen Hoai et al., Andrology, 2021 · 14,597 men · Measured by clinician (median).
The study behind it
The figure comes from Nguyen Hoai et al., Andrology, 2021, which measured 14,597 men. Method: measured by clinician (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 14,597 men measured, this is one of the better-powered figures in the game.
This is by far the largest sample on the site: 14,597 measurements taken from the health records of men attending an andrology consultation. That scale is also its limitation. The population divides into routine reproductive-health screening, sexual dysfunction, and other conditions — a clinic sample, not a cross-section of the country, and men who present at an andrology clinic are not a random draw from it. The figure is a median rather than a mean, because the measurements were not normally distributed.
How it compares
Vietnam ranks #5 of the 24 countries in the game. That is 1.9 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.
Countries with a similar published figure
When Vietnam came up
Vietnam has been the daily puzzle 3 times so far. Each of those days has its own archive page.
What this figure is not
It doesn't describe any individual man from Vietnam. 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.
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How to read this figure
- Every study on this subject has to solve one problem: who agreed to be measuredRecruitment decides the answer before anyone picks up a ruler. It is the largest source of disagreement between studies and the least discussed.
- There are five ways to measure, and they give five different numbersMost arguments about this subject are two people quoting different protocols at each other. What each one measures, and how far apart they land.
- A percentile is not a grade, and almost everyone reads it as oneNomograms are the most useful thing urology has produced on this subject and the most reliably misread. What the curve is actually telling you is narrower than that.
- How a number with no source becomes a fact everyone knowsThe country maps on this subject are mostly fiction, and they got there by a repeatable process. Once you can see the process, you cannot unsee it.