A man of medium height. What is the average height of a man?

"God, how the men milled!" - Do you know such an exclamation? It's interesting, is the male population really getting lower or just grown up and climbing the heels of women it seems so? About what a man of medium height and what exactly is determined by this indicator in the world and in our country, we'll talk in the article.

Growth is an indicator of sexuality?

Men of average height, probably with some envy glance at the high and therefore such notable buddies. "Eh, I would have his growth! I would have won all the beauties! "- they reason about this. And at the same time they are mistaken.

In Switzerland, researchers drew attention to the fact that especially pronounced sexuality is inherent in men of average height. It is interesting that the lower the representative of the stronger sex, the higher his libido.

More than 500 men aged 20 to 54 years took part in the experiment, which revealed that everyone who had a height of not more than 170 cm showed themselves to be strong, passionate and affectionate partners. By the way, ladies noticed these qualities almost from the first minutes of acquaintance.

Scientists explained this by the fact that a man of medium height and lower, as a rule, has complexes associated with this indicator, so he tries to prove himself, to establish himself in various fields, which, in particular, includes sex.

The growth of a man - a guarantee of its success?

For our ancestors, the growth of a man was directly related to his health, strength and ability to feed and protect his family, so there is nothing surprising in the desire of modern ladies to see a tall man next to him. This is primarily responsible for the basic instinct.

And modern men of high stature, by the way, have not only this advantage. As shown, they tend to have a larger average income and are easier to advance through the career ladder. Scientists attribute this to the high self-esteem and leadership qualities of such people.

It would seem, and the children of large in all respects, representatives of the stronger sex should be a lot. But no! As found out by Dutch scientists, the most prolific is a man of medium height. He, by the way, married earlier and starts the first child. So, despite the love of beautiful ladies to tall partners, they somehow start a family with a man of medium height. With statistics you can not argue!

So what is the average height of a man?

The growth of each of us depends on the combination of 180 genes and, of course, on the way of life of the mother who carried the child. And then - and from the way of life of man himself. Once the average height of a European male was 160 cm, and our contemporaries stretched to an average of 176 cm.

Over time, the notion of what the average growth of a man in the world has changed dramatically. In knightly armor, which are stored in the museums of Rome, now can only climb a teenager. Since the growth of these warriors did not exceed 167 cm.

The growth of the European increased by 11 cm

What exactly affects the number of centimeters from the top to the heels of each person? The data on the dependence of growth rates on race is not a secret to anyone. Asians are not very big people. Their growth is on average 165 cm, and Europeans grow to 178 cm.

But not only genetic heredity predetermines these parameters. In prosperous countries, people are higher than where economics live a miserable existence. After all, the quality of the products eaten, and their variety, and the lack of the need to work hard, along with developed health care, help a person to become higher. Perhaps that's why until recently the average height of a man from America was the largest in the world.

According to observations of the researchers, the body length of the average man increased from the end of the 19th century to 11 cm - from 167 cm to 178 cm.

War - not a hindrance to growth

But, by the way, despite the evidence of the dependence of growth on the standard of living, it turned out that during the two world wars and the Great Depression experienced by mankind, the average body length of people continued to increase. It would seem that growing poverty, lack of food and adversity should have affected the described indicator, but no, it did not happen. On the contrary, the man of average height was getting higher!

Scientists try to explain this phenomenon by the fact that people in such periods tried to have fewer children in the family, which means that the number of eaters decreased and the quality of nutrition came to a relative standard, and the child grew unhindered. Although, of course, such arguments do not seem convincing. Since food during the war could hardly be normalized. So this fact is still a mystery, by the way, as well as an increase in the number of born boys before each war.

Perfect growth of partners

But, however that may be, the average European growth in recent years has increased significantly. In this regard, obviously, the notion of attractiveness has changed.

Researchers from the Netherlands conducted a survey of 50,000 young men and women about what should ideally be the growth of a partner, and at the same time about how satisfied they are with their growth. It turned out that women seem particularly attractive to men above them by 20 cm, but the representatives of the stronger sex prefer a lady who does not hold up to their growth of only 7.5 cm.

On average, according to the findings of scientists from the University of Groningen, the average height of a man and a woman in pairs is 190 cm and 175 cm. Yes, high preferences in growth!

The difference in the growth of the rich and the poor has diminished

The scrupulous scientists from the UK have been trying for thirty years to determine the relationship between the material well-being and the anatomical features of each of the people. Now they claim that for 300 years the average growth of a man in the world has increased more than in the previous several thousand years. So, they emphasize, such a leap speaks about the direct connection of this indicator with material well-being.

So, 200 years ago, representatives of aristocratic families were taller than commoners. At the beginning of the century before last, for example, a 14-year-old teenager from proletarians did not exceed 130 cm, and his peer from a wealthy family was about 25 cm taller. Among our contemporaries, the difference in the growth of the rich and poor is 7 cm, which confirms the overall increase in welfare and the level of medicine.

What are the average growth rates

The conclusion that it is the average population growth that is the most accurate indicator of the nation's health is, of course, true, but genetics can not be discounted. The countries of Africa are difficult to classify as economically sound, but in the Masai, Tutsi and Nilot tribes, men stretch to 185 cm, and even to 2 m, while pygmies do not grow above 150 cm.

True, in prosperous Holland, the average height of a man is 188 cm. And the fair sex of this country is difficult to call "inch" - they grow to 177 cm. In Sweden, Denmark and Norway, these showed less than just a centimeter.

What is the growth of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian men?

Full confirmation of the idea of a direct connection between the parameters of the average growth of the nation and its economic well-being is also noticeable among the representatives of the Slavs, who by fate live today in different countries.

Thus, the growth of the average man, a resident of the USSR, was 168 cm in the 1970s. And in the 80s the male population grew 3 cm.

At the beginning of market reforms, the average Russian was about 176 cm. The average height of a man in Ukraine is not much different from him - he is 175.3 cm.

In 1997 Belarusians were slightly lower. They grew to 174 cm. But in 2008, according to the studies of the department of anthropology, 18-year-olds had growth of 177 cm. As studies show, since 1925 this nation has grown by 15 cm, which is quite good. True, such a process of rapid growth, once called acceleration, has already stopped. This is especially noticeable among urban residents, while in rural areas it is still ongoing.

The average height of men in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, as well as in other countries, of course, closely depends on many indicators. By the way, it is noticed that this can also be related to the level of education of the mother. After all, it is she who organizes the diet and the schedule of her child's day, which can not but affect whether the boy will subsequently be a tall enough man.

The average height of a man is a sign of what?

So, as you have probably already realized, the average growth of residents of different countries and nations can differ. And the impact of many factors can contribute to this:

• Genetics (for example, Asians belong to undersized nations, and Scandinavians have always been very tall);
• The level of welfare in the state (in successful Japan and China - countries originally inhabited by low-income residents, the growth in recent years has increased by almost 12 cm, and the average Japanese is now almost the same height as the American);
• Importantly, a specific person lives in the city or in the countryside;
• As a mother nurtured and raised by a child;
• Does not a person have chronic diseases that, among other things, are able to influence growth, taking up to an average of 3 cm.

A man of average height in different countries can be 165 cm, and 184 cm in height, while being considered among the citizens typical, especially not prominent in this parameter, the representative of the stronger sex.