Which country is taller?

The average height of the Dutch "dominates" the world.

The average height of the Dutch is 1950, which exceeds that of the Americans who once dominated the world. The Netherlands has become the country with the highest average height in the world. Experts say the Dutch will continue to grow taller.

Being short is the trouble of many men, but for the Dutch, their worries are just the opposite. /kloc-for 0/50 years, the height of the Dutch has been growing, with each generation getting taller. The Dutch, who are already the highest race in the world, have not slowed down their growth, so that being tall has become a social problem in the Netherlands.

It became a "high country" more than 50 years ago.

According to reports, since the middle of the19th century, the development of the Dutch economy has led to a sharp rise in population height, which only declined briefly in the 1940s and during World War II, and then continued to grow. Until the 1950s, the Dutch surpassed the Americans and became the highest race in the world. Today, the average height of Dutch men is over1.83m, and that of women is over1.73m..

George Mayat, an anthropologist at Leiden University Medical Center, believes that the growing height is related to the improvement of the living standards of Dutch people and the diet rich in protein. 1848, 1 in every four Dutch men did not meet the requirements for joining the army because they were below 1.58 meters. Today's ratio is11000.

The 50-year average exceeds1.9m.

Mayat estimates that with the further improvement of living standards, the average height of the Dutch will reach 6.3 feet (about 1.92 meters) within 50 years. Although immigrants from North Africa may slow down their growth, their descendants will keep up with the Dutch natives after several generations of reproduction.

Maya said, "We are still growing. We don't know when this trend will stop. No one knows how tall we can grow. "

However, the continuous improvement of living standards does not mean that there is no limit to the growth of height. For example, Scandinavians, whose average height is about 1.8m, are one of the highest races in the world, but they have not shown the trend of continuing to grow taller, and obviously have reached the limit stipulated by ethnic genes.

Pygmies in Africa may grow taller with the improvement of diet, but they can never expect to catch up with the height of the Dutch.

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