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  2. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Human height - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Pygmy peoples - Wikipedia

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    In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.

  5. Anthropometric history - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] In the 1960s, French historians analyzed the relationship between socio-economic variables and human height. [6] Anthropometric history was established as field of study in the late 1970s when economic historians Robert Fogel, John Komlos, [7] [8] Richard Steckel and other academics began to study the history of human physical stature ...

  6. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Lithuanians - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Anthropometric history – Study of the history of human height and weight; Body roundness index – Body scale based on waist circumference and height; Historical race concepts – Disused conception of a person's racial or ethnic makeup; Scientific racism – Pseudoscientific justification for racism

  9. File:Average height of men by year of birth (NCD-RisC (1896 ...

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    English: :Average height of men by year of birth Mean height of adult men by year of birth. Data for the latest cohort (the year 1996) is therefore the mean height of men aged 18 in 2014.