The average height of men and women on the Chinese mainland is 171.8 cm (ninety-third in the world) and 159.7 cm (eighty-seventh in the world), with an increase in 11 cm and 10 cm, respectively, in the past 100 years [24].
Specifically, China's northern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin are home to the tallest people in the country; on average 173.45 cm for men and 160.52 cm for women. Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Hunan inhabit the shortest people on average (165.59 for men and 155.06 cm for women).
In many parts of Asia, including China, the average woman's height is about 5 feet. The average height for women in North America is slightly below the average for women in the U.S. Average heights for women in the U.S. and Canada are the same, while the same average in Mexico is just below 5 feet 2 inches.
Average Female Height in Japan
The global average height of a woman is 159.5 cm (5 feet 2.8 inches), which is the exact same height as the female average height in Japan.
In East Asia, South Korean and Chinese men are now taller than Japanese men. Adults in the South Asian countries of Bangladesh and India have heights that are plateauing, at about 2 to 4 inches (5 cm to 10 cm) shorter than adults in Japan and South Korea.
Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, with an average height of 170cm. * The top four tallest countries for men are the Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia and Latvia. The top four tallest countries for women are Latvia, the Netherlands, Estonia and the Czech Republic.
According to the results of the eighth Size Korea body index survey, adult Korean men had an average height of 172.5 cm, and adult Korean women had an average height of 159.6 cm — around 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 3 inches, respectively.
Some people might be surprised that the average height is still relatively tall! According to Japan's National Health and Nutrition Survey, the average height was still only 160.3cm (5'2”) for men and 148.9cm (4'9”) for women – that's an increase of about 10 centimeters in the span of almost 70 years.
According to the report, the Netherlands is still the world's tallest nation with the average height in the country for men 183.78 cm, or 6 foot, and 170.36 cm, or 5 foot 7 inches for women.
The average for males is considered to be 5.8 feet or 177 cm. Factors that may influence your height include the following: DNA: Your genetic make-up influences your height, growth plates, and hormones.
Koreans are in fact the tallest nationalities in East Asia with their males' average height measuring three centimetres more than that of their Japanese counterparts. In case of the females, the average height of Koreans is 2.5 centimetres more than the Japanese, the Korean Times added.
The average height is 160.3 (5′2′') for Japanese men, which has increased over the past 10 years. So yes, 5′11′' is considered tall in Japan seeing as the average is nowhere near that height. However, there are Japanese people who are that tall, but it's more rare.
New data shows that Indian men are shorter now than they were a decade ago. So are large numbers of women. A new paper published on September 17 says that while the average height of people across the world is increasing, the average height of Indians is actually falling.
The shortest tribe are the Mbutsi people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with an average height of 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) for men and 1.35 m (4 ft 5 in) for women, with some groups averaging only 1.32 m (4 ft 4 in) for men and 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) for women.
With a population that hovers around 2,000, the Toto are today considered one of the world's smallest ethnic groups, and, like their fellow Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to Australia, are experiencing the consequences of extractive industries.
1. Timor-Leste — 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) People on the Southeast Asian island of Timor are an average 155.47cm (5 feet 1.28 inches) tall. The average Timorese man is 159.79cm (5 feet 2.90 inches) tall.
Many Chinese people, especially the ones that emigrated to western countries over the past 100 years or so, were shorter, partially because of nutritional deficiencies, and partially because many of the early immigrants came from Southern China, where people tend to have a shorter stature and smaller frame.
According to a 2014 survey, Korean men have grown about 15 cm (5.9 in) and Korean women have grown about 20 cm (7.8 in) over the past 100 years. Isn't it a HUGE change? In fact, it is said that Koreans have grown the most in the world over the past 100 years.
"The chief reason for the increase in body size is almost certainly diet," said Nobumichi Sakai, director of the Nutrition Branch at the Health and Welfare Ministry. "The dominant pattern of Japanese dietary change since World War II has been westernization.