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Tallest are dutch, by shortest i don't know but maybe the sami peoples according to pics from net they are not so tall.
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The dutch are like trees man, i have once met a dutch family and they were all giants, even the woman, i felt my self small and im 190 cm
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Average sizes of men and women
vgwortThe wealthier a country is, the taller are its residents - at least they say so. Yet for the traditional immigration countries like Hongkong and Singapur is it obviously wrong.
The biggest average body height for males is 1.84 m in the Netherlands, the smallest women with just 1.51 m can be found in Guatemala.
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Body size by country
The following table shows the average sizes, weights and BMI from 143 countries. All figures refer to men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 years. In the US, the average male is 1.77 m tall. The average US-american woman reaches 14 cm less with a height of 1.63 m.
Male
Country average height / weight / BMI
Netherlands 1.84 m 87.9 kg 26.1
Montenegro 1.83 m 90.4 kg 27.0
Estonia 1.82 m 89.9 kg 27.0
Denmark 1.82 m 86.8 kg 26.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.82 m 87.1 kg 26.4
Iceland 1.81 m 89.2 kg 27.1
Czechia 1.81 m 91.9 kg 28.1
Slovenia 1.81 m 87.0 kg 26.6
Slovakia 1.81 m 89.5 kg 27.4
Croatia 1.81 m 91.3 kg 28.0
Serbia 1.80 m 86.9 kg 26.7
Sweden 1.80 m 87.1 kg 26.8
Norway 1.80 m 89.1 kg 27.4
Lithuania 1.80 m 88.1 kg 27.1
Poland 1.80 m 89.0 kg 27.4
Ukraine 1.80 m 87.6 kg 27.0
Finland 1.80 m 86.3 kg 26.6
Latvia 1.80 m 87.9 kg 27.1
Germany 1.80 m 88.7 kg 27.4
Dominica 1.80 m 80.7 kg 25.0
Belgium 1.79 m 85.9 kg 26.8
Bermuda 1.79 m 88.4 kg 27.6
Greece 1.79 m 88.1 kg 27.6
Puerto Rico 1.79 m 90.7 kg 28.4
Switzerland 1.79 m 85.5 kg 26.8
Australia 1.79 m 88.3 kg 27.7
Ireland 1.79 m 89.2 kg 28.0
Canada 1.78 m 87.3 kg 27.4
Austria 1.78 m 84.6 kg 26.6
France 1.78 m 82.6 kg 26.0
Antigua and Barbuda 1.78 m 81.6 kg 25.7
Lebanon 1.78 m 88.9 kg 28.0
Belarus 1.78 m 84.1 kg 26.5
Andorra 1.78 m 87.3 kg 27.5
French Polynesia 1.78 m 93.8 kg 29.6
Cook Islands 1.78 m 103.7 kg 32.7
Luxembourg 1.78 m 86.2 kg 27.2
United Kingdom 1.78 m 86.7 kg 27.4
Grenada 1.78 m 79.3 kg 25.1
New Zealand 1.78 m 88.9 kg 28.2
Romania 1.77 m 85.1 kg 27.1
Niue 1.77 m 98.8 kg 31.5
United States 1.77 m 90.6 kg 29.0
Barbados 1.77 m 82.4 kg 26.4
American Samoa 1.77 m 103.2 kg 33.1
Hungary 1.76 m 87.6 kg 28.2
Russia 1.76 m 80.3 kg 25.9
Tokelau 1.76 m 99.0 kg 32.0
Macedonia 1.76 m 84.4 kg 27.3
Saint Lucia 1.76 m 91.1 kg 29.5
Spain 1.76 m 84.0 kg 27.2
Turkey 1.76 m 84.0 kg 27.2
Israel 1.76 m 85.4 kg 27.7
Morocco 1.75 m 78.0 kg 25.4
Brazil 1.75 m 80.7 kg 26.3
Georgia 1.75 m 84.2 kg 27.5
South Korea 1.75 m 74.7 kg 24.4
Senegal 1.75 m 67.0 kg 21.9
Iran 1.75 m 77.3 kg 25.3
Tonga 1.75 m 93.7 kg 30.7
China 1.75 m 73.5 kg 24.1
Kazakhstan 1.74 m 80.0 kg 26.3
Kuwait 1.74 m 88.1 kg 29.0
Hong Kong 1.74 m 74.4 kg 24.5
Argentina 1.74 m 84.7 kg 27.9
Dominican Republic 1.74 m 77.6 kg 25.6
Italy 1.74 m 80.9 kg 26.7
Uruguay 1.74 m 82.7 kg 27.3
Portugal 1.74 m 79.5 kg 26.3
North Korea 1.74 m 73.1 kg 24.2
Algeria 1.74 m 74.6 kg 24.7
Costa Rica 1.74 m 80.9 kg 26.8
Albania 1.74 m 81.4 kg 27.0
Jordan 1.74 m 85.3 kg 28.3
Samoa 1.73 m 91.8 kg 30.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.73 m 84.8 kg 28.2
United Arab Emirates 1.73 m 84.5 kg 28.1
Bulgaria 1.73 m 81.8 kg 27.2
Greenland 1.73 m 78.5 kg 26.1
Cuba 1.73 m 76.0 kg 25.3
Taiwan 1.73 m 75.0 kg 25.0
Paraguay 1.73 m 79.4 kg 26.5
Singapore 1.73 m 72.8 kg 24.3
Egypt 1.73 m 83.1 kg 27.8
Venezuela 1.73 m 79.8 kg 26.7
Chile 1.73 m 82.8 kg 27.8
Qatar 1.73 m 85.7 kg 28.8
Haiti 1.72 m 78.0 kg 26.4
Japan 1.72 m 69.5 kg 23.6
Colombia 1.71 m 75.7 kg 25.8
Thailand 1.71 m 69.8 kg 23.8
Tuvalu 1.71 m 88.0 kg 30.1
Cameroon 1.71 m 69.0 kg 23.6
Sudan 1.71 m 67.8 kg 23.2
Chad 1.71 m 64.1 kg 22.0
Palau 1.70 m 86.0 kg 29.6
Somalia 1.70 m 65.3 kg 22.5
Belize 1.70 m 79.7 kg 27.5
Eritrea 1.70 m 58.8 kg 20.3
Saudi Arabia 1.70 m 80.9 kg 28.0
Mexico 1.70 m 79.3 kg 27.5
Kiribati 1.70 m 83.9 kg 29.1
Panama 1.70 m 75.5 kg 26.2
Kenya 1.70 m 63.9 kg 22.2
Nigeria 1.70 m 65.1 kg 22.6
Ghana 1.69 m 64.9 kg 22.6
Nauru 1.69 m 93.0 kg 32.4
Micronesia 1.69 m 81.1 kg 28.3
South Africa 1.69 m 71.9 kg 25.1
Honduras 1.69 m 74.0 kg 25.9
Malaysia 1.68 m 71.5 kg 25.2
Vietnam 1.68 m 61.2 kg 21.7
Ivory Coast 1.68 m 65.9 kg 23.4
Bolivia 1.68 m 71.2 kg 25.3
Afghanistan 1.68 m 63.6 kg 22.6
Congo (Dem. Republic) 1.68 m 60.2 kg 21.4
Ethiopia 1.68 m 56.5 kg 20.1
Maldives 1.68 m 69.2 kg 24.6
Sri Lanka 1.67 m 63.1 kg 22.5
Equatorial Guinea 1.67 m 62.5 kg 22.3
Ecuador 1.67 m 74.2 kg 26.6
Burundi 1.67 m 60.5 kg 21.8
Pakistan 1.67 m 64.7 kg 23.3
Bhutan 1.67 m 65.2 kg 23.5
Peru 1.66 m 72.3 kg 26.2
Brunei 1.66 m 74.7 kg 27.1
Tanzania 1.66 m 61.7 kg 22.4
Burma 1.66 m 61.1 kg 22.2
India 1.66 m 59.6 kg 21.7
Indonesia 1.66 m 61.4 kg 22.4
Cambodia 1.65 m 59.7 kg 22.0
Madagascar 1.65 m 58.4 kg 21.5
Marshall Islands 1.65 m 78.7 kg 29.0
Philippines 1.65 m 61.8 kg 22.8
Bangladesh 1.65 m 57.7 kg 21.3
Mozambique 1.64 m 59.2 kg 22.0
Nepal 1.64 m 60.5 kg 22.5
Guatemala 1.64 m 69.1 kg 25.7
Solomon Islands 1.63 m 67.9 kg 25.6
Yemen 1.63 m 62.5 kg 23.6
Papua New Guinea 1.63 m 66.9 kg 25.3
Laos 1.62 m 59.5 kg 22.6
Timor-Leste 1.59 m 53.9 kg 21.2
Female
Country average height / weight / BMI
Netherlands 1.70 m 73.2 kg 25.3
Montenegro 1.70 m 75.3 kg 26.2
Denmark 1.69 m 70.2 kg 24.6
Iceland 1.68 m 72.6 kg 25.6
Estonia 1.68 m 73.7 kg 26.0
Serbia 1.68 m 72.6 kg 25.7
Latvia 1.68 m 74.5 kg 26.4
Czechia 1.68 m 74.2 kg 26.4
Lithuania 1.67 m 73.1 kg 26.1
Slovenia 1.67 m 74.2 kg 26.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.67 m 70.6 kg 25.3
Cook Islands 1.67 m 92.8 kg 33.3
American Samoa 1.67 m 98.1 kg 35.2
Slovakia 1.67 m 71.3 kg 25.6
Croatia 1.67 m 74.7 kg 26.9
Dominica 1.67 m 80.8 kg 29.1
Sweden 1.67 m 70.5 kg 25.4
Niue 1.67 m 92.6 kg 33.4
Norway 1.66 m 72.6 kg 26.2
Austria 1.66 m 68.3 kg 24.7
Belarus 1.66 m 74.4 kg 26.9
Ukraine 1.66 m 72.9 kg 26.4
Finland 1.66 m 71.0 kg 25.7
French Polynesia 1.66 m 81.3 kg 29.5
Germany 1.66 m 71.7 kg 26.0
Tonga 1.66 m 93.1 kg 33.9
Tokelau 1.66 m 92.5 kg 33.7
Bermuda 1.66 m 80.4 kg 29.3
Poland 1.65 m 71.5 kg 26.1
Greece 1.65 m 73.7 kg 26.9
Grenada 1.65 m 78.7 kg 28.8
Barbados 1.65 m 80.1 kg 29.3
Antigua and Barbuda 1.65 m 75.9 kg 27.8
Andorra 1.65 m 71.7 kg 26.3
Saint Lucia 1.65 m 82.4 kg 30.3
Luxembourg 1.65 m 69.7 kg 25.7
New Zealand 1.65 m 75.9 kg 28.0
Canada 1.65 m 72.4 kg 26.7
Australia 1.65 m 72.6 kg 26.8
France 1.64 m 66.0 kg 24.4
Russia 1.64 m 72.2 kg 26.7
Ireland 1.64 m 73.1 kg 27.1
Romania 1.64 m 72.2 kg 26.8
Bulgaria 1.64 m 69.6 kg 25.9
Switzerland 1.64 m 63.9 kg 23.8
United Kingdom 1.64 m 72.7 kg 27.1
Belgium 1.64 m 68.8 kg 25.7
Senegal 1.64 m 64.5 kg 24.1
Lebanon 1.63 m 73.4 kg 27.5
Tuvalu 1.63 m 84.6 kg 31.8
United States 1.63 m 77.1 kg 29.0
Puerto Rico 1.63 m 76.0 kg 28.6
Samoa 1.63 m 90.5 kg 34.1
China 1.63 m 62.2 kg 23.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.63 m 81.2 kg 30.7
Georgia 1.63 m 73.2 kg 27.7
South Korea 1.63 m 61.0 kg 23.1
Hungary 1.62 m 70.1 kg 26.6
Spain 1.62 m 65.9 kg 25.1
Brazil 1.62 m 70.3 kg 26.8
Albania 1.62 m 69.2 kg 26.4
Israel 1.62 m 71.1 kg 27.1
Algeria 1.62 m 69.4 kg 26.5
Chad 1.62 m 57.3 kg 21.9
Kazakhstan 1.61 m 69.3 kg 26.6
Turkey 1.61 m 75.0 kg 28.8
Italy 1.61 m 64.8 kg 24.9
Uruguay 1.61 m 71.3 kg 27.4
Greenland 1.61 m 69.5 kg 26.7
Singapore 1.61 m 60.2 kg 23.2
Iran 1.61 m 70.5 kg 27.2
Portugal 1.61 m 65.8 kg 25.4
Dominican Republic 1.61 m 70.9 kg 27.4
Argentina 1.61 m 71.4 kg 27.6
Kiribati 1.61 m 80.3 kg 31.1
Morocco 1.61 m 68.7 kg 26.6
North Korea 1.61 m 61.9 kg 24.0
Macedonia 1.61 m 67.8 kg 26.3
Qatar 1.60 m 77.6 kg 30.2
Taiwan 1.60 m 60.9 kg 23.7
Hong Kong 1.60 m 61.1 kg 23.8
Haiti 1.60 m 62.1 kg 24.2
Egypt 1.60 m 80.5 kg 31.4
Cameroon 1.60 m 64.3 kg 25.1
United Arab Emirates 1.60 m 75.6 kg 29.5
Cuba 1.60 m 66.8 kg 26.1
Costa Rica 1.60 m 71.7 kg 28.0
Kuwait 1.60 m 78.1 kg 30.6
Sudan 1.60 m 66.3 kg 26.0
Venezuela 1.60 m 68.5 kg 26.9
Paraguay 1.59 m 68.4 kg 26.9
Palau 1.59 m 75.4 kg 29.7
Somalia 1.59 m 60.4 kg 23.8
Chile 1.59 m 71.5 kg 28.2
Micronesia 1.59 m 79.6 kg 31.4
Jordan 1.59 m 75.9 kg 30.0
Kenya 1.59 m 61.8 kg 24.4
Thailand 1.59 m 63.3 kg 25.0
Ghana 1.59 m 63.3 kg 25.2
South Africa 1.58 m 74.1 kg 29.5
Ivory Coast 1.58 m 60.7 kg 24.2
Saudi Arabia 1.58 m 73.6 kg 29.4
Japan 1.58 m 54.8 kg 21.9
Belize 1.58 m 76.3 kg 30.6
Colombia 1.58 m 66.4 kg 26.7
Nigeria 1.58 m 59.7 kg 24.0
Vietnam 1.58 m 54.0 kg 21.7
Panama 1.58 m 68.9 kg 27.7
Equatorial Guinea 1.58 m 64.1 kg 25.8
Nauru 1.58 m 82.2 kg 33.1
Mexico 1.57 m 70.7 kg 28.5
Eritrea 1.57 m 52.2 kg 21.1
Ethiopia 1.57 m 51.6 kg 21.0
Malaysia 1.57 m 64.0 kg 26.1
Tanzania 1.57 m 58.8 kg 24.0
Papua New Guinea 1.57 m 63.2 kg 25.8
Solomon Islands 1.56 m 65.9 kg 27.0
Congo (Dem. Republic) 1.56 m 55.0 kg 22.6
Sri Lanka 1.55 m 57.3 kg 23.7
Bolivia 1.55 m 66.8 kg 27.7
Afghanistan 1.55 m 57.9 kg 24.0
Mozambique 1.55 m 56.2 kg 23.4
Honduras 1.55 m 66.2 kg 27.6
India 1.55 m 52.5 kg 21.9
Ecuador 1.55 m 66.9 kg 27.9
Bhutan 1.55 m 58.4 kg 24.4
Burundi 1.55 m 51.5 kg 21.5
Brunei 1.55 m 65.0 kg 27.2
Marshall Islands 1.54 m 73.0 kg 30.6
Pakistan 1.54 m 58.9 kg 24.7
Cambodia 1.54 m 52.8 kg 22.2
Burma 1.54 m 54.7 kg 23.0
Peru 1.54 m 64.3 kg 27.1
Maldives 1.54 m 62.4 kg 26.3
Indonesia 1.54 m 56.2 kg 23.7
Yemen 1.54 m 56.9 kg 24.0
Philippines 1.54 m 55.5 kg 23.5
Laos 1.53 m 53.7 kg 23.0
Madagascar 1.53 m 49.2 kg 21.1
Bangladesh 1.52 m 50.5 kg 21.8
Nepal 1.52 m 51.6 kg 22.3
Timor-Leste 1.52 m 49.0 kg 21.2
Guatemala 1.51 m 61.9 kg 27.3
Heights by continents
A pure list by country may be helpful when it comes to classifying yourself in your environment. Here once again a list summarized by subcontinent. Here too, it is clear that there are differences within a continent. For example, the weight of Southeast Asians and Polynesians differs slightly from the rest of the subcontinent. With regard to body size, there are noticeable variations between Southern Europeans, North Americans and Near Easterners and the rest of the respective continent.
Africa Male Female
Eastern Africa 1.67 m 1.57 m
Central Africa 1.69 m 1.58 m
Southern Africa 1.69 m 1.59 m
Northern Africa 1.73 m 1.61 m
Western Africa 1.70 m 1.59 m
America Male Female
Caribbean 1.74 m 1.61 m
North America 1.77 m 1.63 m
Central America 1.69 m 1.57 m
South America 1.73 m 1.60 m
Asia Male Female
South Asia 1.66 m 1.55 m
Southeast Asia 1.67 m 1.55 m
Western Asia 1.72 m 1.59 m
Central Asia 1.71 m 1.60 m
East Asia 1.74 m 1.62 m
Australia Male Female
Australia/New Zealand 1.78 m 1.65 m
Europe Male Female
Western Europe 1.80 m 1.66 m
Southern Europe 1.76 m 1.63 m
British Isles 1.78 m 1.64 m
Eastern Europe 1.78 m 1.65 m
Northern Europe 1.81 m 1.67 m
Oceania Male Female
Polynesia 1.76 m 1.65 m
Melanesia 1.64 m 1.57 m
Micronesia 1.69 m 1.59 m
Influences on body size
The main reasons for regional differences in body size are heredity and nutritional standards. A protein-rich food is important, and this is noticeable over generations. Although protein is considered an essential component here, a weakening of the body due to diseases and allergies also has an inhibiting effect on growth. Diseases occur more frequently as a result of weaknesses in the immune system and therefore consume the energy that the body could put into its growth. Good health is primarily due to a good diet, but in the second instance also to a good health system with adequate medical care. As a result, the average body size is remarkably low, especially in poor countries of the third world.
Genetic predispositions are another factor for body size. It is not individual genes that speak for or against pronounced growth, but rather the interaction of several dozen genes. Thus, the expressions of these genes are passed on in families or ethnic groups.
Historical increase in size
In almost all countries of the world, the average body size has increased significantly over the last 100 years. While German men were still approximately 13 cm smaller at the beginning of the 20th century, Spanish men increased over 14 cm and Iranians even over 16 cm. With the women, the height of South-Korean-women rose by over 20 cm.
These drastic increases are unique in the history of mankind. In no phase of the evolution humans became so much bigger, as since the industrial revolution at the end of the 18. century. In the preceding 1000 years both men and women did not grow at all on average and before that only by 1-2 cm per 1000 years.
Strikingly often a international comparison of penis sizes is requested here, which is now available on a separate page. Additionally an evaluation of the average cup sizes by country is now existing.
Data sources
All sizes and weights are based on a summary of scientific studies evaluated by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) and published in the medical journal The Lancet. The more than 2100 studies summarized there are from the years 1985 to 2019. In contrast to the NCD-RisC no long-term development is presented here, which is why the data in the above table are only composed of the studies of the latest 3 years.
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Highest genetic capabilitity regarding what ? Becoming the population with the taller average or considering other stuff?Originally Posted by XenophobicPrussian
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So Senegal is the tallest sub-saharan african (175cm). I thought it would be South Sudan.
For Latin America it is Puerto Rico (179cm)
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Probably is South Sudan yes, some of their ethnic groups are the tallest in the World. This data doesn't cover all countries, only 143.
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Weight in American Samoa
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Serbians are the tallest population
Cypriot are the shortest population
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They are natural Rugby playersWeight in American SamoaJokes apart they have naturally large bones and muscular mass, doesn't mean they are all obese in terms of body fat.
According to the list I posted, Serbians are 4cm away from being the tallest.
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