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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table , original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
English: The map above shows the average (mean) height of a female 19-year-old in 2019 in each country and territory in the world for which data is available. The source of the data is a pooled analysis of 2,181 measurement-based scientific studies covering over 65 Million participants from 1985 to 2019.
The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [74] From 1830 to 1857, the average height of a Dutch person decreased, even while Dutch real GNP per capita was growing at an average rate of more than 0.5% per year. The worst decline was in urban areas that in 1847, the urban height penalty was 2.5 cm (1.0 in).
As of 2009, the average birth rate (unclear whether this is the weighted average rate per country [with each country getting a weight of 1], or the unweighted average of the entire world population) for the whole world is 19.95 per year per 1000 total population, a 0.48% decline from 2003's world birth rate of 20.43 per 1000 total population.
Ethnic minorities constitute 8.49% or 113.8 million of China's population in 2010. During the past decades ethnic minorities have experienced higher growth rates than the majority Han population, because they are not under the one-child policy. Their proportion of the population in China has grown from 6.1% in 1953, to 8.04% in 1990, 8.41% in ...
At the end of the 19th century, the average height of males was 163.5 cm (5 ft 4 in) and the average height of females was 153.3 cm (5 ft 0 in). By the end of the 20th century, heights averaged 181.3 cm (5 ft 11 in) for males and 167.5 cm (5 ft 6 in) for females. [41]
Asserted to be the world's tallest living woman in 2016. [161] Height never confirmed by Guinness World Records. No up-to-date information available. born 1987 Zhang Ziyu: China: 220 cm 7 ft 3 in Tallest women's basketball player, she plays with China women's national under-18 basketball team. [162] born 2007 Margo Dydek: Poland: 218 cm: 7 ft 2 in
In some states in the North and Northeast, the fertility rate was higher than the national average in 2021. The highest rate was in Acre , with 1.98 children per woman. Other regions with high fertility include Amapá , with 1.87 children per woman, Amazonas , 1.85 in Roraima , 1.84, in Maranhão , 1.82, and Pará , 1.79.