What a weird set of countries.

Crazy! Did the small chinese hight come from malnourishment or hard labor? Otherwise that increase would be hard to describe right?

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.

I'm tall because ham?

the US doesn’t use cm

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.

they are 3 feet, 2 elbows and a thumb high.

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

It shows americans growing after a decline, this study from 2025 shows they're still getting smaller

Production isn't consumption. A lot of that is for export.

Edit: my mistake, they included the consumption graphs further down..

7/16s of a thumb.

This is really fascinating!

Now do weight ...

Wow. I need to upy vegetable game.

I prefer the standard units of small dogs or the modern bananas for scale.

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.

Growth hormones aren't legal in farming in Europe (nor Canada).

2% of a football field tall

Unfortunately your government will not allow it on a large scale or allow you to do it too extensively on your own property.

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

Amerikans winning, we greatest!

I see you have fallen into the "taller male dominant" trap. the great equalizer is the testicle strike - and you have the advantage :-)

Where's the rest of Europe, where's Africa, and where's the Middle East ???

Wow its almost like mean height is affected by poverty and nutrition or something

You should add a /s unless you are serious.

The Dutch are incredible. Once upon a time they were the shortest people in Europe. Now they are the tallest in the entire world.

It's obviously the result of the Dutch living below the sea level and the short drowning, it's quite sad actually.

Yeah I bet if you overlaid life expectancy it would map almost perfectly

I wonder if there are other non-obvious-once-you-think-about-it-and-stop-being-racist tells

The chart would be useless with too many, as you would not be able to identify it even see the lines.

in this day and age, too many people think that way unironically, so if you want to act like a dumbass you must accept to be treated like a dumbass.

likely china and india are chosen as they are in the progress of uplifting poor populations, and the effect can be reflected here (with china already done much more progress).

They do a lot of stretching.

Chill, if anyone is taking this post serious, he's lacking /s in his life

welwp, at 186cm i'm about average in The Netherlands.

I think the British passed is a few years back.

We’re starving more people now, plus glp-1s.

Greasiest

races
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https://bananacalculator.com/

Race is a social construct, but it can be a useful differentiator when looking at populations. Race or ethnicity or country or origin etc. Whichever term you prefer.

Ignoring race is what has lead to a lot of poor outcomes for POC as most of the data was based on studies of white people.

What if it's a really tall man with short legs and an extra long torso though?