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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table , original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
Probably the height of 1.72m to Chinese men is only considered for the Chinese people of upper middle class. This isn't the height of the entire population. The other source "Study on weight and height of the Chinese people and the differences between 1992 and 2002" says that they measured over 200 000 people in all Chinese provinces.
As of 2020, the average Chinese man was 169.7 centimeters tall (5 ft 7 in) in 2019, the figures showed, and women's average height was 158 centimeters (5 ft 2.2 in).
The Chinese word for metre is 米 mǐ; this can take the Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "kilo-", "centi-", etc.). A kilometre, however, may also be called 公里 gōnglǐ, i.e. a metric lǐ. In the engineering field, traditional units are rounded up to metric units. For example, the Chinese word 絲 (T) or 丝 (S) sī is used to express 0.01 mm.
The average height for men and women in the United States is 5'9" and 5'4", respectively. Here are 40 celebrities that are way taller than we realized.
Here is the height difference of every US president and first lady we could find. George and Martha Washington: 1 foot 2 inches Shayanne Gal and Samantha Lee/Business Insider
If Chinese are typical in terms of exaggeration they average male height is < 171cm and female height about 160cm, and this is for the medical students between the ages of 19 - 25 (average age 20.4 in 2005). ---r0m {{subst:220.253.68.210|17:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)}}