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Average male height Average female height Stature ratio (male to female) ... Indian conscripts, average age 18.4 SD 1.3, (N= m:11,865, SD= m:6.6 cm (2.6 in)) —
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). [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).
(per 1000 births, under age 1, national average) Male to female sex ratio for India, based on its official census data, from 1941 through 2011. [100] The data suggest the existence of high sex ratios before and after the arrival of ultrasound-based prenatal care and sex screening technologies in India.
In 1901 there were 3.2 million fewer women than men in India, but by the 2001 Census the disparity had increased by more than a factor of 10, to 35 million. [9] This increase has been variously attributed to female infanticide, selective abortions (aided by increasing access to prenatal sex discernment procedures), and female child neglect. [9]
The average male Olympic rower is 1.92 m (6 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), and the average female Olympic rower is 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in), [45] [self-published source?] well over the average height. However, for the coxswain of the boat, it is advantageous to be shorter since having a lower body mass would contribute to a faster time for the overall crew.
It is estimated that the worldwide average height for an adult human male is about 171 cm (5 ft 7 in), while the worldwide average height for adult human females is about 159 cm (5 ft 3 in). [158] Shrinkage of stature may begin in middle age in some individuals but tends to be typical in the extremely aged. [159]
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.