The average height of a man in the world, Russia. Growth by races, nationalities, peoples

Hello dear readers! You know, today we will touch on a very interesting topic: the average height of a man in Russia. I'll start, as always, with some background.

I grew up in a happy and wealthy family. My mother often played the same game with me: when we just walked, rode the subway or sat and looked out the window, she chose one person: it didn’t matter if it was a man or a woman.

So, drawing my attention to this person, we began to guess with her: who is he? Where does he work? How old is he? Married or not? What is his height and weight? Bad habits and more. "What did it give you?" - you ask. The answer is very simple: I began to intuitively understand people, I could immediately draw up a psychological portrait of any person.

Over the years, I began to notice that I guessed a lot, often paid attention to things that others did not see, learned to read between the lines. This game has helped me a lot in my adult life, so I recommend it to everyone.

People all over the planet are very similar to each other, but at the same moment they are different. And salary, social status, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. Have you ever wondered why Slavic women are considered the most beautiful in the world? And the most passionate - Italian men? Still, the men of our country must also have something in common.

Does a person's height play any role in his life?

On my own, in my personal research, I have found that men of average and short stature are more successful than tall guys. And the latter are more popular among women. That's even if you read a study conducted by the men's gloss Men's Health. More than 60 thousand guys took part in the experiment and it turned out that growth not only affects the number of partners, but also the quality of the act itself.

Scientists explain it all by evolution. Back in the days when women lived in caves and men hunted mammoths, tall defenders were popular. They could protect the woman, and get food, and become a protector and support.

An interesting fact: when women look for a man on a dating site, they first look at his social status, then at appearance, and then at height. But guys should not despair, whether you are tall or not, the main thing is to be a decent and worthy person. Probably 😉

In the modern world, a tall man can be equated with success. Or is it all a big commercial ploy? What do you think?

Well, for some reason, no one shoots guys of small and medium height at shows or in men's glossy magazines, even in the modeling world, appearance is not as important as height. In my opinion, this is discrimination, as, for example, a guy who is already the last in the ranks in physical education will feel at school.

And it doesn't matter at all , even if he is much smarter than his classmates, he will still strive to grow up early, become more successful and better than those who stood first in the ranks. It seems to me that it is precisely this kind of discrimination that becomes the basis for the fact that later the tall guys stand guard, and the short guys rule the company, funds, banks, and countries.

What is the average height of a man in Russia?

• The average male height in Russia is 170 cm.
• The average female height in Russia is 163 centimeters.

But in China, before, guys with a height of 160 cm were already considered tall, but today these figures have changed a lot. I don’t know what influenced the inhabitants of this country so much, but today the average height of a Chinese is 172 cm and above, sometimes there are guys with a height of 2 m.

Let me tell you another story on this topic.

I have a friend, she is a very good, decent girl, from a very decent and wealthy family. An excellent student in life: a school with a gold medal, an institute with a red diploma, everything is as written in books. And on a personal note, everything was fine with her too, she constantly met with one guy, as far as I remember her, she went with him.

Naturally, we all joked that, they say, let's, when it's already a wedding. But the guy was in no hurry to take such an “ideal” girl as his wife. Once we were all relaxing, and I asked that guy: "What's the matter?". He answered me that, according to genetics, in the family of an ideal girl, everyone is not tall, and he is afraid that children will be born midgets.

Honestly, I was so amazed by his answer that I thought: “How can genetics influence people’s relationships in such a way? But what about couples who really have problems? Of course, as you may have guessed, there was no wedding, he nevertheless proposed to her, and then a month before the wedding he said that he did not want to marry.

Cruel, right? And all because of the small growth. What, in your opinion, is normal growth, and does it matter so much to you? Share in the comments.

What determines human growth - a short video:

The pursuit of the ideal

Discussion of the average height of a man in Russia is not so bad.

And what is the average weight for a man is considered optimal?

It seems to me that our life is a constant pursuit of ideals, it’s as if they hang a lot of different labels on us, and they look at how much we will correspond to them. Reach for - you're cool, no - you're a loser. It's still good that we are adults and can be aware and filter information ourselves, but what about schoolchildren?

It seems to me that school psychologists and parents should deal with them. Often the latter forget about their children and try to realize themselves in a career, creative, family plan, but this is not about my mother, who devoted herself entirely to the family.

Yes, many will disagree with me, they will say that I am an egoist, but on the other hand, I grew up as a self-sufficient man. I have a sea of ​​complexes, but my parents supported me in every possible way, spoke to me on an equal footing and always helped. So, I was able to survive youthful maximalism, a bunch of teenage problems and become who I am today.

Regarding the average weight, I will tell you the story of my childhood friend, I think you will like it

For as long as I can remember, he has always changed dramatically in terms of weight. Until the age of 20, he was no more than 48 kilograms, his friends constantly laughed at him: do not go out when a storm is approaching, it will take you across the ocean. But at the same time, with a smart look, everyone encouraged him: nothing, they say, you will grow up soon - you will add weight.

These words have become prophetic.

After the second year of university, David began to weigh more than 70 kg, and then the girls went, buns - and away we go. Free schedule, own car, life on the principle of work-rest-sleep-have sex, and friends have already started joking differently: “Something you have become fat, brother! Like a pig, look at your belly". And all these conversations irritated David, and they were incomprehensible to me.

Last straw for David

was a meeting of graduates of our school, ten years after graduation. The constant phrases “Yes, you have completely recovered!” and surprised “well, you and the boar!” literally left him no choice. David decided to take care of himself and find his golden mean. Despite the fact that my trainer is strongly against diets, he advised my friend to try to sit on Dukan, and he seized on this information. I must say that the diet is pretty good (I never sat on it), but I think the guys will like it: you need to eat meat and in large quantities.

For 60 days, lived in harmony with the planned diet, he threw off 20 kg. Then David acted according to the classical principle: a gym membership, two months of active cardio training, then work with weights, in order not so much to maximize the muscles, but to make them work and get in shape. He continues training today, gets up at 7 in the morning - and forward. And then he walks all day long.

And in general, his life has changed dramatically, he opened himself to the world, began to get involved, has already made 5 jumps, although before he was completely afraid of heights. In a word, no you, or apathy there.

From the point of view of psychology, I can say that my friend simply believed in himself and began to live to the fullest. He is no longer surrounded by envious people, he simply does not communicate with half of our former company, he does not listen to their opinion, does not look for minuses in himself, but works and works on himself every day.

Why did I tell you about his life?

It's simple: you will never be perfect for everyone, whether you are tall or short, thin or full, you will always meet people on your way who will "put spokes in the wheels" to incite, mock.

These are all obstacles that you must overcome with dignity. Move forward and be worthy people, and believe me, height does not matter if you are a self-sufficient man.

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And women from Latvia. Today, the height of the average Dutchman reaches 183 centimeters, while the average Latvian woman reaches a height of 170 centimeters.

The researchers, who published their work in the journal eLife, studied changes in the growth of people in 187 countries since 1914. It turned out that men from Iran and women from South Korea have the most significant "gains" - on average, their height increased by about 16 and 20 centimeters, respectively.

In the UK, the height of men and women over the same period increased by an average of 11 centimeters. And today, the average inhabitant of Foggy Albion reaches 178 centimeters in height, and a resident - 164 centimeters.

In 1914, the men of Russia occupied the 35th line of the list of the tallest people, their figures reached 167 centimeters, TASS reports. In 2014, they "grew" by almost ten centimeters, the average today is 176 centimeters. However, despite this, in the modern ranking they have dropped to 42 places compared to other men.

Russian women have grown by about 12 centimeters over 100 years - from 153 to 165 centimeters. And they occupy the 23rd line of the rating, while in 1914 only 53 were satisfied.

Scientists note that data on US residents give a significant contrast to the study. There, men and women have grown only six and five centimeters, respectively, over the past century.

And indeed, in the ranking of the tallest people on the planet, US residents have lost their former positions. Back in 1914, they occupied the third line among the tallest men on Earth, and women - the fourth place. Today they got 37th and 42nd places.

It is noted that the list of the highest inhabitants of the planet is dominated by people living in European countries.

Now let's clarify the situation concerning the "smallest" inhabitants of the planet. The shortest men live in East Timor - their average height is 160 centimeters. And the shortest women live in Guatemala. By the way, similar indicators were observed in 1914. According to scientific work, 100 years ago, the average woman at the age of 18 there reached a height of 140 centimeters, today she is no higher than 150 centimeters.

Interestingly, some of the most noticeable changes in height occurred among East Asians. People in Japan, China and South Korea are much taller than they were 100 years ago.

"South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), on the contrary, experienced the most insignificant changes in growth over the past hundred years. Here the" increase "was from one to six centimeters," says one of the authors of the study, James Bentham (James Bentham) from Imperial College London.

In addition, in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa (a group of African countries located south of the Sahara Desert), average growth has declined since the 1970s. For example, in Uganda and Sierra Leone, the level of decline reaches several centimeters.

Some of the difference in height around the world can be explained by genetics, but the authors of the study say that the DNA code may not be dominant in this matter.

Majid Ezzati, lead author of the study, from Imperial College London, told BBC News: "About a third of the changes can be explained by genetics, but it doesn't reveal why the changes happened over time. Genes don't change that fast, nor do they change all over the world."

From this, the scientist concludes that the changes that have occurred over time are largely determined by the environment.

Other studies have shown that being tall can have both positive and negative sides.

Tall people tend to have a longer life expectancy and a lower risk of various heart diseases. On the other hand, scientists have found evidence that taller people are at greater risk of getting some types of cancer - colon, breast and ovary.

"One hypothesis is that growth factors can stimulate cell mutation," says Elio Riboli, another author of the study.

Americans are no longer the tallest people on Earth. According to Dr. John Komlos of the University of Munich, in 1850 the average white American was 173.69 centimeters tall. In 2000, the average height of a US citizen was 178.7 centimeters. For blacks in the United States, this figure is somewhat lower.

Over the same 150 years, Europeans have grown up much stronger, and now the palm belongs to the Netherlands.

If in 1850 the average height of a resident of this country was only 164.5 centimeters, then at the turn of the millennium it was 184.12 cm.

A German scientist has published a number of articles, in his opinion, explaining why Americans have greatly slowed down their growth since the 1950s and are now lagging behind, reports. Initially, Komlos suggested that the point was the possible influence of undersized migrants. However, when he conducted additional research, excluding fresh US citizens from the sample, the trend remained the same: the growth of Americans in comparison with Europe slowed down.

One of Komlos' articles indicates that since the 1950s, the average height of a child in the US has stopped increasing. At first it seems strange, because the standard of living of Americans is growing. The quality of medical care has also improved.

Apparently, the scientist from Munich believes, over the past decades, the diet of the American and his lifestyle have changed a lot.

The food is plentiful but unbalanced. The anthropologist draws a parallel between the decline in the growth rate of Americans (and, according to some sources, the first decline in the average height in 300 years) and the growing epidemic of obesity, especially in childhood. But it is the childhood years that are critical for the formation of growth. Although a person grows up to 20---25 years, the most important from the point of view of anthropometry are the 1st, 6-8th, and also 13-15th years of life.

In addition, according to Komlos, Americans have begun to pay less attention to children, which also affects their condition: many indicators related to the quality of life of children in the United States are much lower than in Europe. At the same time, this quality is lower even from the womb: the death rate during childbirth born with a weight below the norm, the level of infant mortality and child poverty, oddly enough, in the United States is still lower than in European countries (of course, in this case about Russia and other countries of the ex-USSR are out of the question).

However, many colleagues do not agree with the conclusions of their Munich colleague.

In their opinion, it is difficult to compare a country as large and heterogeneous as the United States with relatively small countries with low levels of immigration. “Well, to say: you just need to pour money into health care is a completely simplistic approach,” argues Komlos from the American Enterprise Institute.

According to opponents of the Munich study, the average height of citizens depends on too many parameters to draw such direct conclusions.

However, its dependence on the standard of living can be traced. And because growth begins in childhood, social upheavals are delayed.

Meanwhile, the average height of Russians is declining. The director of the Children's Health Research Institute, an academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, stated in 2006 that "the growth of Russians over the past ten years has decreased by one and a half centimeters."

The average height of a resident of Russia is 170 cm.

However, the decline is likely to continue. For example, now in the Urals, the average height of a newborn is 50 centimeters (in 1980, throughout the USSR, the average height of a newborn was 51.7 cm). Apparently, these Russians, when they grow up, will become even lower.

Other countries are also concerned about the problem of average height. So, Vietnam several years ago adopted a program according to which the average height of a Vietnamese over the next 25 years should increase by 6.7 cm. According to the Vietnamese government, an increase in this indicator speaks best of the country's welfare.

The Vietnamese are going to achieve such growth, first of all, with the help of milk. The government of the country intends to allocate it to children from an early age. At the same time, since 1975, when the Vietnam War ended, the average height of Vietnamese men has increased from 157 centimeters to 163 centimeters. And no milk. And in Russia, dairy kitchens have existed since Soviet times. And they don't help you grow. And if Dr. Komlos is right, then with the spread of fast food, children will grow even more slowly, because past the hamburger eateries they

Russian people are no longer what they were at the beginning of the 20th century. If we just look at photographs from different periods, this cannot be overlooked.

Such different people

If we look at photographs of our compatriots from the beginning and even the middle of the 20th century, we cannot fail to notice that modern Russians are seriously different from their predecessors. There is a difference in height, and in weight, even in movements and facial expressions.
There really are differences. And not only among the Russians. Anthropometric indicators of the people - the value is not constant. Nutrition, the political system, economic stability, and epidemics can affect height, weight, shape, and even plasticity. Wars have a serious impact on the anthropometric indicators of the population.
We will not go deep into history. In addition, data, for example, on the average height of Russians until the middle of the 20th century, are not systematic. Although, we still know something. The historical and anthropological reconstruction of Denis Pezhemsky, which was carried out on the basis of archaeological excavations, showed that in the 16th-17th centuries the growth of the male population of Novgorod was 165 cm, and women - 151 cm. According to written sources analyzed in the study by Boris Mironov, the average height of Russian recruits the beginning of the XVIII century reached 165 cm. That is, before the Russian people were shorter. You can come to the same conclusion if you look at the armor of warriors in any museum.

What determines height and weight?

What determines the average population growth? The main factor can be considered the economic stability of society, which in the old days directly correlated with productivity. To simplify, then in the generation whose childhood, and most importantly, the first year of life fell on a favorable time, there will be higher anthropometric indicators. For human growth, the first year of life can be considered critical, it is much more important than, for example, the twentieth year, since it is in the first year that the greatest increase in growth occurs.

According to anthropologist Boris Mironov, human growth depends on the net difference between the energy consumed from food and the energy expended for needs throughout life. We can say that the growth reflects the history of net consumption.

Mironov connects changes in anthropometric indicators with the satisfaction of the so-called basic human needs (food, clothing, medical care, and so on). The final average height of a person just depends on the degree of satisfaction of basic values. The better these needs are met, the higher will be the average height of people.

How did Russians change over the past century?

Acceleration

In general, it can be argued that almost throughout the entire 20th century, Russians became taller. Sociologists attribute this to global accelerating changes. However, already in the early 1980s, in most groups of the urban population of the USSR, the process of acceleration began to fade. By the beginning of the 1990s, in Moscow children, the increase in body length and weight, as well as chest girth, practically stopped, and then was replaced by a decrease in indicators.

The largest study of the anthropometric data of the Russian population was carried out in 1974 at Moscow State University. According to its results, it can be seen that during the 20th century the average growth of the country's population gradually increased, but there were also short-term "downturns" associated primarily with the period of collectivization and the deterioration of living conditions. For 42 years, from 1916 to 1957, body length decreased 23 times compared to the previous year and increased 19 times, and weight - 24 and 18 times, respectively.
In all the graphs that anthropologists cite as the results of the work, it is clear that the most serious "jump" in growth began already in the post-war period, in the late 1940s.

In 1960-1970, the average height of men in the Soviet Union was 168 cm, women - 157 cm. In the 1950-1980s, acceleration processes became even more noticeable among post-war generations. In 20 ethnic groups of the USSR, including Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Tatars and Bashkirs, the average height increased by almost 3 cm. - 164 cm.

Ages of change

If we consider the main factors for the decrease in the anthropometric data of the Russian population, then it would be appropriate to talk about the direct dependence of growth and weight indicators on the political stability of the state. The most negative impact is exerted by global reforms, which have been carried out more than once in Russian history. According to the same Boris Mironov, "Reforms require large sums of money, accompanied by a break in the habitual way of life, a change in the norms of behavior and value systems, a temporary deterioration in the work of all social institutions and structures." Thus, it can be argued that children born in the 90s may be lower than they could be if they were born in calmer times.

What influences?

It must be admitted as a given: people change. A modern person could have been recognized a century ago without any documents. Urbanization, better nutrition, the development of medicine - all this makes a person literally taller and heavier. And not only in Russia.

Today's average growth rate in Europe is 11 cm, in Spain - 12 cm. At the moment, the highest nation is the Dutch. The average height of men there is 1.85 m. Interestingly, during the Second World War, the Americans held the palm (1.77 m), but after the middle of the 20th century, the dynamics of population growth in the United States stopped. According to WHO, the average growth in Russia in the 60s of the XX century was 1.68, today it is 1.78.

But rejoice, however, early. Despite the fact that we are growing, other important indicators with us, compared with our ancestors, are lagging behind. According to studies cited by anthropologists at Moscow State University, today's teenagers are much weaker than their peers from the 30s of the twentieth century. Measurements carried out on a simple dynamometer showed that the average Moscow schoolboy in the last century squeezed 55 kilograms, today the average has dropped to 36. Such is the “bell”. We hope for the GTO.

The growth of a person, laid down genetically, is almost impossible to change, but a lot depends on the growth of a man and a woman in their life. Are modern people really superior to their ancestors? Why don't we grow all our lives? What is the maximum height of the human skeleton? And which of the famous people did you overtake in growth?

Human growth is one of the most important indicators of the state of the body. It depends on a whole complex of hereditary properties, the intake of many substances into the body, its hormonal regulation, environmental conditions, social status, etc.

Growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland stimulates the development of cells and tissues. The natural cessation of growth is not due to a lack of hormone formation by the pituitary gland, but to an age-related decrease in the ability of cells and tissues of the body to respond to the action of this hormone. Growth is also greatly influenced by insulin (pancreatic hormone), the products of activity and adrenal glands.

Excessive secretion of growth hormone leads to a disease such as acromegaly or gigantism, the lack of the same hormone - to growth retardation, up to dwarfism. Gigantism is more common in males. Lilliputians, or pituitary dwarfs, - proportional subjects. These include everyone whose height at the age of twenty does not exceed 140 centimeters for men, and 130 centimeters for women.

Growth also depends on social well-being. It is noted that once the difference between an aristocrat and a poor man reached 20–22 centimeters. In the 13th century, the average height of recruits from the south of France was 154 centimeters, and from Paris - 162 centimeters; at the same time in Russia, the average height of service people was 162-164 centimeters, while Muscovites were taller than Novgorodians.

The growth of a newborn depends on the size of the parents, the size of the uterus, the nutrition of the mother, the presence or absence of toxic processes in her body, as well as the number of previous births. From birth to 7–8 years, boys and girls generally differ little in body length. After 8–10 years and up to fifteen years, girls grow somewhat faster, and then boys become taller than girls.

Girls stop growing at the age of fifteen or sixteen, boys - by the age of 18-21. The growth of bones in length is most often completed by the time of puberty, and in men it occurs later than in women, which is why they are often taller. Statistics show that over the past hundred years, the growth of adolescents has increased by an average of 10 percent, and this is about 17.5 centimeters.

At present, the average height of a Russian man is 176, and a Russian woman is 168 centimeters. On average, the height of men is 13.5 centimeters higher than the height of women.

Psychologists say that men have an irresistible desire to reach the 183-centimeter mark. At the same time, it is not excluded that the higher the man, the more sexually in demand he is.

Nowadays, the higher a woman is, the faster she climbs the career ladder. It is possible that its growth is due to a significant content in the body of the male sex hormone testosterone.

It is believed that a man should be taller than a woman. And if he is a ruler, a boss, then his figure, at least in the representation of subordinates and in the image (sculpture, painting), as a rule, rises above ordinary people.

According to American researchers, the height of the wife exceeds the height of the husband in only one out of 720 married couples. But A. Pushkin barely reached the shoulder of his wife Natalia Goncharova.

According to research, positive characters are more often presented as tall and physically strong people. And women of all cultural strata recognize tall men as more attractive.

Don Quixote had, judging by the famous literary work, a long, narrow torso. Sancho Panza, on the other hand, was short, stocky, with a short neck and massive musculature. Now think about how our ideas about these literary characters would change if they swapped bodies with each other ...

There is an international club, which currently has about 3 thousand people whose height exceeds 2 meters. If in the first years of the club's existence its members only consoled each other, then later they began to fight for the production of furniture, shoes and clothes designed for their growth, for taxation reduction, etc.

In A. Belyaev's fantasy novel "The Man Who Lost His Face", hormones "brought" the beautiful Gedda Lux to a height of 287 centimeters. Such growth in real people has not yet been recorded. But in life, men (their limb length usually exceeds the length of the body) have the following records: the Russian Fedor Makhnov had a height of 285 centimeters, the Finn Kajanus and the Dutchman Albert Cramer - 282. Records for women (they usually have a body length that prevails over the length limbs): the German Marianne Veda was 255 centimeters tall, and the American Dolores Pullard was 250 centimeters tall. In Russia, the tallest was, obviously, Elizaveta Lysko - 227 centimeters.

Today, the Turk Sultan Kosen is recognized as the tallest man in the world, his height is 247 centimeters, while the Chinese Bao Xishun has 236 centimeters. Zhytomyr resident Leonid Stadnik with a height of 255 centimeters is still an unofficial record holder and continues to grow.

In 1872, a Scottish woman Anna Swan (234 cm tall) and Captain of the Guards Martin Bates (218 cm tall) were married in England.

But there are limits to human growth. We cannot reach a height of 3-4 meters: our bones are not designed for such a load. Below I give data on the growth of a number of very famous people that I managed to collect, based on information in the periodical press.

Height of famous people

A. Pope	1 m 35 cm
Tamerlane	1 m 45 cm
Alexander the Great	1 m 50 cm
Charlemagne	1 m 50 cm
A. Pushkin	1 m 59 cm (according to other sources 1 m 64 cm)
M. Lermontov	1 m 60 cm
B. Mussolini	1 m 60 cm (according to other sources 1 m 55 cm, 1 m 62 cm)
Z. Freud	1 m 60 cm
Napoleon	1 m 61 cm (according to other sources 1 m 52 cm, 1 m 65 cm, 1 m 69 cm)
I.Stalin	1 m 62 cm (according to other sources 1 m 69 cm, 1 m 53.5 cm)
Kim Chen	IR 1 m 62 cm
V.Lenin	1 m 64 cm
A. Hitler	1 m 65 cm
N. Khrushchev	1 m 66 cm
S. Yesenin	1 m 68 cm
N.Sarkozy	1 m 68 cm
V.Vysotsky	1 m 70 cm
V.Putin	1 m 70 cm
D.Medvedev	1 m 72 cm
S. Berlusconi	1 m 73 cm
Nicholas II	1 m 74 cm
M. Gorbachev	1 m 75 cm
L. Brezhnev	1 m 76 cm
Ivan the Terrible	1 m 78 cm
B. Yeltsin	1 m 88 cm
V. Mayakovsky	1 m 89 cm
Peter I	2 m 01 cm (according to other sources 204–213 cm)

The shortest, obviously, should be recognized as a thirty-seven-year-old woman described in the 17th century by the French naturalist Buffon, who had a height of 43.3 centimeters, and a Filipino Juan de la Cruc, 48 centimeters tall. Today, the growth of the twenty-five-year-old Turk Suleiman Erie is 87 centimeters, and the eight-year-old resident of the island of Java Carey is 51 centimeters. In 2010, the eighteen-year-old Nepalese Gyanendra Tapa Magar, with a height of 55 centimeters, got into the Guinness Book of Records.

Often, in some states, undersized subjects also unite in clubs, because the tax authorities do not take into account that they have to order special clothes, shoes, furniture, adjust the car control system to fit their height, etc.