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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.
The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [77] 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).
English: :Average height of women by year of birth Mean height of adult women by year of birth. Data for the latest cohort (the year 1996) is therefore the mean height of women aged 18 in 2014.
English: :Annual change in average female height The relative annual change in the mean height of adult women by year of birth. Data for the latest cohort (the year 1996) is therefore the mean height of women aged 18 in 2014. Positive values indicate an increase in average height; negative values indicate a decline.
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.
Anthropometric history is the study of the history of human height and weight. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The concept was formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots. [ 3 ] In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations.
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
The average age at first marriage for both men and women began to fall after WWII, dropping 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 and dropping even more to 22.5 and 20.1 years in 1956. In 1959, the United States Census Bureau estimated that 47% of all brides marrying for their first time were teenagers aged 19 and under.