Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical resting heart rate in the US?

Median is 68 bpm. Most people fall between 60 bpm and 76 bpm. Above 84 bpm is top-10%.

What's a typical resting heart rate?

The median US adult lands at 68 bpm for resting heart rate. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 60 bpm to 76 bpm. Below 54 bpm you're in the bottom 10%; above 84 bpm you're in the top 10%.

How we computed this

We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.

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