Researchers have figured out how to change the height of the inhabitants of 187 countries in the last 100 years.
Latvian women and Dutch men are ahead on growth of representatives of other nationalities.
On this topic, scientists at Imperial College London conducted the study to explore indicators and growth trends for 100 years.
It turned out that the average man has a height of 183 cm, and the Latvian woman below him on 13 cm. according to the Association, which includes about 800 scientists from around the world. They received them in collaboration with who (world health organization.
Experts have studied the hundred years between 1914 and 2014, examined data of 187 countries. They made up graphs, charts, rankings that helped figure out what changes the most during this time have undergone Iranian women and men from South Korea.
The first grown up to 20 cm, and the other 16 cm Over the hundred years older Belarusian and Ukrainian women caught in 2014 in the ranking of the ten most high. At 11 cm in height was added to the British men and women. Now the average height of men is 178 cm, while women have an average of 164, see
It is known that in ranking growth rates in 1914, the Americans were third among men and fourth among women. A hundred years later they took 37 and 42 respectively. The Europeans are firmly holding their positions for growth in ranking, but scientists predict that in the West, the growth trend leveled.
The petite women live in Guatemala (140-150 cm) and the lowest men in East Timor (160 cm). Opinions of scientists about changes in the growth of the earthlings are divided. Some experts believe that this is due to genetics.
The authors do not believe DNA is the dominant factor. Iajit Ezzati, a specialist at Imperial College London said that genetic data are not so mobile to so much change over the last hundred years.
The conditions of life to which you need to pay attention in the first place, much more important, so people need to care standards in health care, nutrition and hygiene. These are the main factors of growth.
