• Question: how tall is the average man?

    Asked by grifandore to Samuel on 18 Mar 2015.
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      Samuel Ellis answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      This varies depending on who you look at. The worldwide figure for men is usually given as around 1.75 m, about 5 ft 9. Females are on average 1.63 m (5 ft 4).

      Height does vary by aspects like nationality and race, with areas like the Netherlands and Scandinavia at the tallest end and parts of Asia at the shortest.

      It has changed over time as well, with average male heights in Europe below 5 ft 5 in the early 1700s for example.

      On a related note the world’s tallest (8 ft 3) and shortest (1 ft 7) living men met last year, with one being over 5 times the height of the other! See them meeting in this video

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