Human height

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 185 cm (6 ft 1 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 187 cm (6 ft 2 in), while globally, the average height for adult females was approximately 170 cm (5 ft 7 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]

1. ↑ hicks, Rhashad. "Medical News Today: What factors influence a person's height? – Central Alabama Wellness". Archived from the original on 2021-12-04. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
2. ↑ Roser, Max; Appel, Cameron; Ritchie, Hannah (2013-10-08). "Human Height". Our World in Data.
3. ↑ https://wannabetaller.com/average-height-of-men-and-women-worldwide-2023/
4. ↑ Roser, Max; Appel, Cameron; Ritchie, Hannah (2013-10-08). "Human Height". Our World in Data.
5. ↑ Grasgruber, Pavel; Popović, Stevo; Bokuvka, Dominik; Davidović, Ivan; Hřebíčková, Sylva; Ingrová, Pavlína; Potpara, Predrag; Prce, Stipan; Stračárová, Nikola (2017-04-01). "The mountains of giants: an anthropometric survey of male youths in Bosnia and Herzegovina". Royal Society Open Science. 4 (4): 161054. Bibcode:2017RSOS....461054G. doi:10.1098/rsos.161054. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 5414258. PMID 28484621.
6. ↑ Viegas, Jen (2017-04-11). "The Tallest Men in the World Trace Back to Paleolithic Mammoth Hunters". seeker. Retrieved 2017-04-12.