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Wow its almost like mean height is affected by poverty and nutrition or something
Yeah I bet if you overlaid life expectancy it would map almost perfectly
I wonder if there are other non-obvious-once-you-think-about-it-and-stop-being-racist tells
Crazy! Did the small chinese hight come from malnourishment or hard labor? Otherwise that increase would be hard to describe right?
Better quality of nutrition - more protein and vegetables. Much more vegetables. An absurd amount more vegetables.
They also fixed their zinc deficiency, which has long been known to affect height.
But seriously, the vegetables.
Graphs pictured:
- Daily supply of calories that are available for consumption, Measured in kilocalories per person per day. 1985 to 2023
- Estimated share of the total population in each country with zinc intakes below physiological requirements, 1990–2005
- Average daily per capita protein supply, measured in grams of total protein per day, 1985 to 2023
- Average per capita vegetable consumption, measured in kilograms per person per year, 1985 to 2023
the US doesn’t use cm
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they are 3 feet, 2 elbows and a thumb high.
7/16s of a thumb.
I prefer the standard units of
small dogsor the modernbananasfor scale.
2% of a football field tall
By 2050, Chinese men will be 3 metres tall
It shows americans growing after a decline, this study from 2025 shows they’re still getting smaller
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welwp, at 186cm i’m about average in The Netherlands.
