Human height
distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Human height is the height of a human body. Factors that influence human height are genetics, what people eat, the human body's natural chemicals, and being sick or healthy.[1]
Over the last two millennia, human height, based on skeletal remains, has stayed fairly steady, oscillating around 170 cm (5 ft 7 in). The global mean height of adult men born in 1996 was 171 cm (5 ft 7 in), while the global average height of adult women born in 1996 was 159 cm (5 ft 3 in).[2] In 2023, the average male height worldwide was approximately 175 cm (5 ft 9 in), while globally, the average height for adult females was approximately 162 cm (5 ft 4 in).[3] The average man is taller than the average woman: this is seen across all countries in the world.[4]
Men from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro have the tallest average height.[5][6]
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