Americans and Scandinavians were the tallest people in the world in 1914. A century later they have been left behind, with Dutch men and Latvian women the global height champions in 2014.
Overall, the world has grown taller as economic prosperity and better nutrition have spread. But that growth has been uneven, according to the first comprehensive study of human height released at the European Science Open Forum in Manchester.
In the tallest countries in 2014 — the US, Canada and Nordic countries — there has been relatively little change. In fact, growth stopped in the US in the early 1970s and there has been a slight decline in height since 2000, partly due to falling nutritional standards.
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