What is the average American height?

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What is the average height in the US?

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average age-adjusted height for American men 20 years and older is is 69.1 inches (175.4 cm), or 5 feet 9 inches tall, and the average height of an American female over 20 years of age is 63.5 inches (161.5 cm), or 5' 3.5" tall.
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What is the average world height?

On a global scale, the average height of men is around 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm), while the average height of women is around 5 feet 4 inches (162 cm).
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Is 5'10 A good height in USA?

In general, a height of 5'10" (178 cm) is considered to be within the average range for men. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average height for an adult man in the United States is about 5'9" (175 cm). This means that a man who is 5'10" is slightly taller than average.
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What state has the tallest people?

The tallest states in the US are Montana, and Utah, both of them having an average height of 5'7.7″.
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Top 10 Tallest States
  • Montana – 5'7.7″
  • Utah – 5'7.7″
  • Minnesota – 5'7.5″
  • Oregon – 5'7.5″
  • Alaska – 5'7.5″
  • Iowa – 5'7.5″
  • North Dakota – 5'7.5″
  • South Dakota – 5'7.5″
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Average Human Height by Country (2020) | Height Comparison



How tall was Jesus?

He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
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What race is the tallest?

Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, with an average height of 170cm. * The top four tallest countries for men are the Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia and Latvia. The top four tallest countries for women are Latvia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the Czech Republic.
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How tall is the average Mexican?

Even though Mexico is not considered to be a part of South America, we would still like to mention its height average. The average male height in Mexico is 5 feet 5.5 inches (170.2 cm) and the average female height in Mexico is 5 feet 1.8 inches (157.9 cm).
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How tall is the average Mexican man?

49.3% of those measured were men, 50.7% women. The survey, limited to people over 18 years of age, found that the median height was 165 cm (5'4″) for Mexican males and 158 cm (5'2″) for females. The median weight was 74.8 kg (165 lb) for males and 68.7 kg (151 lb) for females.
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How tall is the average Chinese man?

The report says the average height of 19-year-old Chinese males is 175.7 cm, and that of Chinese females is 163.5 cm. Many netizens agreed with the conclusion of the survey results by comparing their height with the younger generations.
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What is Japan's average height?

According to Japan's National Health and Nutrition Survey, the average height for a man in Japan was only 160.3 cm (5 feet 2 inches) and the average height for women in Japan was only 148.9 cm (4 feet 9 inches) 70 years ago, which shows that there is approximately 10 cm height increase in Japan over the 70 years.
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How tall is considered short?

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, short stature means an estimated final height below 5 feet 3 inches for boys or 4 feet 11 inches for girls. The average height in the United States is 5 feet 8 inches for men and 5 feet 4 inches for women.
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What is China's average height?

The average height of men and women on the Chinese mainland is 171.8 cm (ninety-third in the world) and 159.7 cm (eighty-seventh in the world), with an increase in 11 cm and 10 cm, respectively, in the past 100 years [24].
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What's the shortest race?

The shortest tribe are the Mbutsi people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with an average height of 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for men and 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in) for women, with some groups averaging only 1.32 m (4 ft 4 in) for men and 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) for women.
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What country is everyone tall?

According to the report, the Netherlands is still the world's tallest nation with the average height in the country for men 183.78 cm, or 6 foot, and 170.36 cm, or 5 foot 7 inches for women.
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What was Jesus's full name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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What was Goliath height?

The oldest manuscripts, namely the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel from the late 1st century BCE, the 1st-century CE historian Josephus, and the major Septuagint manuscripts, all give Goliath's height as "four cubits and a span" (6 feet 9 inches or 2.06 metres), whereas the Masoretic Text has "six cubits and a span" (9 ...
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How tall is God in heaven?

This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall. (He doesn't use the metric system).
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Why are Europeans so tall?

In a paper published in Nature, the researchers show that northern Europeans seem to have a stronger genetic link to a particularly tall nomadic population from the Eurasian steppe who came to Europe around 4,500 years ago. Because of these genes, northern Europeans are still tall compared to others on the continent.
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What is short for a man?

Short is 5′ 6″ or less for guys. Here is a guide.... 5′6″ or less is short, 5′7″ to 5′10″ is medium height average (not short) and not tall…but 5′11″ to 6′4″ is tall. 6′5″ up to 6' 8″ is extremely tall.
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