Mean Height of 19yo Males in Select Countries, 1985-2019
(midwest.social)
Data Is BeautifulWow its almost like mean height is affected by poverty and nutrition or something
The Dutch are incredible. Once upon a time they were the shortest people in Europe. Now they are the tallest in the entire world.
Is this the result of dating apps letting women filter men by their height?
It's obviously the result of the Dutch living below the sea level and the short drowning, it's quite sad actually.
You should add a /s unless you are serious.
I guess. Or everyone else should take a chill pill.
tfw I'm under the mean height for the netherlands
It's real shortcel hours
Now do weight ...
Amerikans winning, we greatest!
the US doesn’t use cm
2% of a football field tall
confirmed, dataset ruined
they are 3 feet, 2 elbows and a thumb high.
7/16s of a thumb.
I prefer the standard units of small dogs or the modern bananas for scale.
Crazy! Did the small chinese hight come from malnourishment or hard labor? Otherwise that increase would be hard to describe right?
Better quality of nutrition - more protein and vegetables. Much more vegetables. An absurd amount more vegetables.
They also fixed their zinc deficiency, which has long been known to affect height.
But seriously, the vegetables.
Graphs pictured:
- Daily supply of calories that are available for consumption, Measured in kilocalories per person per day. 1985 to 2023
- Estimated share of the total population in each country with zinc intakes below physiological requirements, 1990–2005
- Average daily per capita protein supply, measured in grams of total protein per day, 1985 to 2023
- Average per capita vegetable consumption, measured in kilograms per person per year, 1985 to 2023
Wow. I need to upy vegetable game.
Unfortunately your government will not allow it on a large scale or allow you to do it too extensively on your own property.
It shows americans growing after a decline, this study from 2025 shows they're still getting smaller
This is really fascinating!
German man is taller than me. That's sad ;(
I see you have fallen into the "taller male dominant" trap. the great equalizer is the testicle strike - and you have the advantage :-)
You see when those countries started to use growth hormones in swine farming.
As far as I know India doesn’t eat so much pork. US most likely prefers beef.
Btw Asean people born and raised in West Europe grow tall as well. It must be the food. And to lower degree environment.
Growth hormones aren't legal in farming in Europe (not Canada).
I'm tall because ham?
Not ham in particular, but high protein availability and nourishment. Not for just wealthy people. For most people. That’s not discounting poverty in any country.
The volume of proteins doesn’t explains it. The US eats by far more meat than durch people: 144 to 91 kg.
Check here https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production You can filter by everthing and select same countries as in this graph.
The dutch heights seem to be a genetic preference as well. Germans eat somehow the same mix with a little less seafood. Btw Germans in the Northern parts - close to Netherlands are quite tall in general. May be seafood.
Production isn't consumption. A lot of that is for export.
Edit: my mistake, they included the consumption graphs further down..
Yes, genetics likely plays a part. However, it would matter more about protein during early years, than average across the whole population. Once people are fully grown, it wouldn’t matter so much any more. American diets tend to be higher in fats and refined sugars, so,perhaps that makes a difference but emricans are also at the higher end of the table, despite having a more diverse population, including races that are stereotypically shorter.
I live in Australia and I know that here they have to use different graphs for different races for babies for normal height and weight. The most common European descent population is shorter and less sticky than the Pacific Islander populations and taller and more stocky than the Asian population.
You mentioned an important thing migration and grow up. I looked at the migration rate of those countries and it turns out the the Netherlands has the lowest rate. So, as migration typically reduces the overall height - if one assumes its the protein volume in your youth - this would explain the graphs much better. It might be the protein volume not the swine hormones.
https://ourworldindata.org/migration
Btw Asean people born and raised in West Europe grow tall as well.
Honestly not always the case. I find thst they're generally shorter than the white people around.
It must be the food. And to lower degree environment.
Ethnic Indians that won't eat pork in india don't eat pork in europe, I find.
Your theory is interesting when applied to chinese people, who famously do love pork. Because the implication is that china is not already using swine growth hormones.
What a weird set of countries.
Nope pretty normal actually. Netherlands is famously tall, Germamy and UK are good parallels to the USA in terms of HDI i think. And if you're already deciding to shos the usa or netherlanda, it makes sense to show their nearest language cousins - the UK and Germany.
India and China are leading economies in their respective continent, and have "developing economy" regions. So this allows us to basically go "North America, Europe, Asia," and compare and contrast developed against underdeveloped.
Also i've seen this selection of countries for a bunch of different stuff too.
Where's the rest of Europe, where's Africa, and where's the Middle East ???
