The Dutch are still the world’s tallest people with the average man hitting 6ft, study finds.
The Dutch are getting smaller… but luckily for them, they’re still taller than everybody else on Earth. Dutch people born in 2001 are shorter than those born in 1980, a study by the country’s statistics office has found. The average 19-year-old man in the Netherlands today is 6ft tall (182.9cm), while the typical woman is 5ft 7in (169.3cm). Factors including immigration and diet are likely to be responsible for the change in height, which reverses a century and a half of rapid growth, the study said. ‘In the course of the last century we have become taller and taller, but since 1980 the growth has stopped,’ it said. ‘The men born in 2001 were on average 1 cm shorter than the generation from 1980, women 1.4 cm on average.’ The average 19-year-old man in the Netherlands today is 6ft tall (182.9cm), while the typical woman is 5ft 7in (169.3cm). Pictured: The Utrecht event The average 19-year-old man in the Netherlands today is 6ft tall (182.9cm), while