yea those dutch must be on stretching machines. Why are they so tall?
Most Latvians are devout.
Didn’t the author think having millions of illegal short central Americans floodinf the country would effect the data?
Ballerinas. Why don’t they just hire taller women?
[[Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height rankings a 100 years earlier, to placing 37th and 42nd respectively in 2014. ]]
Mexican are usually pretty short , tons of immigrants from their is certain to lower the average height
Well, damm. Wish I’d inherited that gene.
It’s the heavy Scandinavian/Germanic bloodlines especially in the other Baltic states the Vikings spread out to.
I say this being a 6’-8” tall 3rd generation American from Sweden. And yes, we settled in Chisago Lakes, MN lol...
With Lithuanians not too far behind. But the Dutch do tower, especially some of their women.
'The immediate point was clear: America was a good place to live in the eighteenth century. Game was abundant, land free for the clearing, settlement sparse enough to prevent epidemics. On Komlos’s graph, even the runaway slaves are five feet eight, and white colonists are five feet nine—a full three inches taller than the average European of the time. “So this is the eighteenth century,” Komlos said, slapping the files. “This is not problematic. It shows that Americans are well nourished. Terrific.” He reached into a cardboard folder and pulled out another series of graphs. “What is problematic is what comes next.”
Around the time of the Civil War, Americans’ heights predictably decreased: Union soldiers dropped from sixty-eight to sixty-seven inches in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, and similar patterns held for West Point cadets, Amherst students, and free blacks in Maryland and Virginia. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the country seemed set to regain its eminence. The economy was expanding at a dramatic rate, and public-hygiene campaigns were sweeping the cities clean at last: for the first time in American history, urbanites began to outgrow farmers.
Then something strange happened. While heights in Europe continued to climb, Komlos said, “the U.S. just went flat.” In the First World War, the average American soldier was still two inches taller than the average German. But sometime around 1955 the situation began to reverse. The Germans and other Europeans went on to grow an extra two centimetres a decade, and some Asian populations several times more, yet Americans haven’t grown taller in fifty years. By now, even the Japanese—once the shortest industrialized people on earth—have nearly caught up with us, and Northern Europeans are three inches taller and rising.
The average American man is only five feet nine and a half—less than an inch taller than the average soldier during the Revolutionary War. Women, meanwhile, seem to be getting smaller. According to the National Center for Health Statistics—which conducts periodic surveys of as many as thirty-five thousand Americans—women born in the late nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties average just under five feet five. Those born a decade later are a third of an inch shorter.'
I thought the Lithuanians were the tallest.
See...America doesn't win anymore.
Mr Presumptive President pick up the gold phone....Donald...we need to change this so fast our heads will spin.
I guess deporting all gravitationally challenged illegals is a start.
I just came here for the Latvian women.
I’m pretty sure this article is racist.
:)
Wonder what their diets have been....