Nah, then over time everyone would be about the same.Originally posted by SodiumChloride+30 July 2004 - 06:36--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SodiumChloride @ 30 July 2004 - 06:36)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-gemby!@29 July 2004 - 06:33
is it true that most people have a height between that of their parents ?
if so im all grown up - bless me
The trick to being tall is to reincarnate as a Norwegian. [/b][/quote]
Hello!
Here some world Male 18-30 and Female 18-30 averages:
Asia:
Chinese(estern boys):
M:167.5CM(5' 5 3/5") F: 154.5CM(5'0 3/5")
Korean: 170CM(5'6 3/5") F: 157CM(5'1"3/5")
Japan: 172.5CM(5'7 3/5") F: 162CM( 5'3 3/5")*
Europe:
Spanish/Greek:176CM(5'9 1/5") F:163CM (5'4")
UK: 178CM(5'10") F: 165CM (5'4 4/5")
Sweden/Norway/Denmark/Finland/Germany/:180CM(5'10 3/5") F:167CM(5'5 3/5")
Holland: 183CM(6'0") F: 170CM(5'6 4/5")tallest in the world!
USA/Canada: 178CM 5'10" F:165CM(5'4 4/5")
South America: No reliable data exists the only data is from certain adoption agencies and is made from to small groups to have any relecvance. But probably they are about the same as the Spanish people!
Africa: No reliable data exists. There is many groups of people in Africa some of them really short and some extremly tall even taller then the dutch ones . But in recent decades the groups have blended in to generall populations for each country so no one knows their averages anymore. One famous example are the Tutsie population. Some groups within the Tutsies population lived very close together and as a result got inbreed and one of the things that came out of these mutations in combination with the climate where extreme height. The average height amongst these people once grew up to 6'11"(211CM) for men and 6'5"(195.5CM) for women in the 19'th century so they where true giants. However at the end before war broke those groups appart they had fallen in average and at the end in the early 90's the average where about 6'5" fo men and 5'11" for women still extremely large but not as large as before. Now they have blended in the rest of the population in their respective country for instance Kenya so those giant sized populations no longer exists!, Nigeria has some groups of people with large tall individuals and it is estimated that some groups in Nigeria is about 6'1"(185.5CM) in average for male but that is not scientifically proven yeat!.
*regarding Japan. As you might have noticed the difference in height between Japanese gilrs and men are smaller then for the rest of the i-countrys. This is unknown why it is so. But one theory is that it is the result of sexual preference amogst japanese males that have driven their height further then the male population another theory is that the female Estrogen hormone reacts more strongly to the recent diet changes then men do. The Japanese population has grown very fast during the past 2 decades as a result of more protein intake and less rice in their diet(they eat more like we do)and as a result it is great difference in size between generations. The older ones 40+ are smaller or much smaller then the young ones.
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