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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.
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
Waist-to-height ratio: the average ratio for US college competitive swimmers is 0.424 (women) and 0.428 (men); the ratios for a (US) normally healthy man or woman is 0.46–0.53 and 0.45–0.49 respectively; the ratio ranges beyond 0.63 for morbidly obese individuals. [15]
Hello! I propose new figures on the average height of men and women in Switzerland dating from 2017. They come from the Federal Statistical Office and are self-reported. The average height of men is 177.4 cm and that of women is 164.7 cm. The sample consists of 10435 men and 11644 women.
A Burmese survey done in the 1960s reported a mean height of an adult male Taron at 1.43 metres (4 feet 8 inches) and that of females at 1.40 metres (4 feet 7 inches). These are the only known "pygmies" of clearly East Asian descent. The cause of their diminutive size is unknown, but diet and endogamous marriage practices have been cited.
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India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [ 100 ] lived in about 638,000 villages [ 101 ] and the remaining 27.8% [ 100 ] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations . [ 102 ]