In the UK, men's average height increased from 170 cm to 177 cm, while women's increased from 159 cm to 162 cm.

The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but this change has not ...

Professor Lewis Halsey and his colleagues found that, for every 0.2 point increase in HDI, women were on average 1.7 cm ...

Now, they have fallen to 37th-tallest for men and 42nd-tallest for women, after the two groups hit the American peak average height in 1996 and 1988, respectively. The study looked at growth ...

Each unit increase in Gini was associated with an average reduction in height of approximately 0.14 centimeters in women and 0.31 centimeters in men, and an average weight decrease of ...