The country with the shortest women is Guatemala, where the average height is 149 cm, while Latvian women are 20 cm taller (at 169 cm).
Smallest female population share 2021, by country
As of 2021, the country with the highest percentage of men was Qatar with only one fourth of the total population being women.
The country with the shortest people in the world is East Timor, or Timor-Leste, which is an island country in Southeast Asia. The average height of people on this island is just 5 feet 1.28 inches, or 155.47 centimeters. Interestingly, Iranians have grown the most over the 20th century.
The world of running is getting laughed at in Philadelphia by the organizers of the 0.0 Instant Gratification Run–the shortest race ever. That's right, it is 0.0K, or 0.0 miles, or 0.0m and so on.
Maltese women are the shortest in the EU, at 160.8cm.
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.
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.
The country with the shortest women is Guatemala, where the average height is 149 cm, while Latvian women are 20 cm taller (at 169 cm).
Ethnicity is an important factor determining the height of an individual. Ethnically different populations might respond differently to the same environmental factors and thus the final height in different ethnic groups is different. Height is a polygenic trait with a high degree of heritability.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, short stature means an estimated final height below 5 feet 3 inches for boys or 4 feet 11 inches for girls. The average height in the United States is 5 feet 8 inches for men and 5 feet 4 inches for women.
Based upon figures from Wikipedia.com and worldatlas.com, the Dutch turn out to be, in fact, the shortest people in Europe, and the third shortest globally, with the small country of Bhutan holding the crown of the 'Tallest People on Earth' and the Dutch's long-time rival Belgium towering over them in Europe.
The Netherlands is renowned for its tall population and unsurprisingly the nation has the tallest average height on Earth. The average 19-year-old man stands at 183 cm, while women of the same age are typically 172 cm.
Worldwide, the male population is slightly higher than the female population, although this varies by country. As of 2021, the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, under the control of China, has the highest share of women worldwide with 54.2 percent.
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].
The ideal height for a woman, according to the average man, is 5'6”.
The average height for women in the United States is about 5 foot 4 inches (or about 63.7 inches) tall.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, short stature means an estimated final height below 5 feet 3 inches for boys or 4 feet 11 inches for girls.
The average Vietnamese man is 162.1 cm tall and the average woman 152.2 cm, far shorter than their Asian peers like Chinese, Singaporeans, Japanese, and South Koreans. The averages are 170.7 cm and 157.4 for South Korean, 169 cm and 158 cm for Chinese and 172 cm and 158 cm for Japanese.
Overall, the perceptions of Vietnamese people's height are driven by a mix of real heritable factors, as well as the legacy of malnutrition-based “stunting” that occurred with older generations prior to the 2000's.
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.
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 examination of skeletons from different localities in Scandinavia reveals that the average height of the Vikings was a little less than that of today: men were about 5 ft 7-3/4 in. tall and women 5 ft 2-1/2 in.
On average, Germans are about as tall as the average American. German men average 175.4 cm (5 ft 9 in); women, 162.8 cm (5 ft 4 in). In my observation, Northern Germans tend to be taller than Southern Germans, though I have no statistics on this.