guys. what is our real height? in the morning after woke up or in the evening height? i am 190.7 after wake up and i am 189cm after 10 hours awake

this is retarded. everyone stop posting your height, we understand that there are tall people of every race. all this article is saying is that the country with the tallest people on average is the Netherlands. No further speculation is needed.

i'm a nigerian and i am 6ft.0in tall and i'm considered a giant. nice to know there are tall people like me out there. By the way, can anyone mention something about the arabians?

Hello friends in Montenegro and the Balkan region. I am a 165 cm high male American. I have travelled many times through the Balkan area and every country, in ex-Yugoslavia, and Croatia seven times.

I am most definitely sure this area has the tallest population of men and women in Europe.

i am from holland. i am 17 years old and i am 2.07 meters, that is 6'9.5" and still growing.

People from ex Yugoslavia, especially from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia and even Slovenia are mostly tall and hold over 1.80.

A lot of sportsmen from the whole balkan area are known for being tall and strong.

Even in countries like Russia, Ukraine, ex Czechoslovakia etc., you can find a lot of tall people.

A few years ago a friend of mine from The Netherlands visited me in New Jersey - he is about 6'7" - we were in NYC one day and standing across the street from Madison Square Garden (Pro-basketball games are played there) when a black man approached us and asked my buddy, "Did you play ball last night?" :)

Good God. I'm 4'11".

I am Chinese male at 177cm and I am 23 years old, so I don't think I will grow any taller. Strange thing is that my dad is 168 cm and my mom is 164 cm yet I ended up 177. I guess my diet is really good and I also excercise a lot. The younger generation Chinese are getting so much bigger -- these too mainly due to better diet and exercise. But I feel kind of short compared to the Dutch where they are at 185cm.

That is ok, I live in the USA and the average height is 177cm, and girls are only 164cm. So it is not a problem for me. However, if I ever want a Dutch girlfriend, I will have to gain some extra confidence. lol

Montenegrins are the tallest, there's nobody even close. I'm 5'8" and when I'm in Montenegro, I'm practically eye level with belly buttons... I believe their average height is like 6'5" or better.

Is this counting only tallest men or people (including creatures called women)?

Lucky dutch. Jokes aside I'm an Australian that has holidayed in the Netherlands twice and there honestly could not be a bunch of friendlier, intelligent and down to earth people. Live long and prosper, Netherlands!

My dad is Dutch, mother not. I'm 17 and 6'3'', tallest van A. ever! Lol.

Well, I'm glad I'm dutch. lol. My dad's 6'4" and my uncles are like 6'5" and 6'6". Last year, I was 14 I was about 5'6", now i'm 15 and almost 16 and i'm 6", almost 6'1"!

I'm a Dutch (male) student of 16 years old, and i'm 1.90 meters tall. It is true that we're on average the tallest country in the world. Being 1.90 meters is just normal for a boy of my age in Holland. Many friends of mine are even taller, only a few are shorter.

the tallest nation in the world is sudan. They are 6.3 on average so the tallest race in the world is black.

Cool, cool. well i'm mexican, born in California and the tallest person in my family is 6'6 or 6'7 and i'm the second tallest at 6'2 or 6'1. at age 16 i'm still hoping to grow. i want to be 6'4 or a little past that. im a little over average at school with white guys. i can see over most kids that are 6'0 or 5'11.

I'm from Gacko, in Bosnia & Herzegovina and from the Herzegovina region. Most men in Herzegovina are at least 1.80 meters. My dad and brother are the shortest people in our family and they're 1.80m. All of my male cousins are 1.90 m - 1.98m. Anyway, I think it's more diet than genetics.

Hey is there some other group were missing here? There are a couple of kids in my school i know (bout 4 or 5) out of the 1000 or so there that are massively tall, (ie. 6"4' 14 year olds, 6"8' 18 year olds) who all follow the same basic pattern of small feet, black hair and quite pale skin. i know a few personally and they're not related to each other. none of the kids in my school who look like them are below 6"2', even the very young kids, 14-13. Who are they? why are they like this?

There are sources and references to the studies indicating that the tallest people do come from the Dinaric Alps. But, that is not a country, and I think there lies the misunderstanding among you all. The Dutch are the tallest as a nation from *one* country, but the people from the Dinarides, which is simply a region spreading over five different countries, certainly are the tallest in Europe. They contribute to the height average of their respective countries. I'm a 22-year-old who lives in Serbia and whose father was born in a village in Bosnian Dinarides. My height is 6'2.something" (188 cm) and I've seen with my own eyes that people are really tall over there. I thought when I was younger that maybe it was because of lower gravity and higher ground. :))) Oh, and one more thing off-topic. I read a comment where someone wrote that what matters is inside not the outside or something like that. Well, I'd agree on that in general conversation, but here we're discussing height, so please, lose the morality or simply don't post.

I'm mexican and I'm 6'7.5'', 2.02 meters and I'm 16 years old. My height was 2.02 meters when I was 14, and my doctor told me that I had stopped growing. I have three cousins taller than me, and my sisters and some males in my family are above 1.80. Here in Mexico I'm so tall, but when I go to the USA for vacation sometimes I see people as tall or taller than me. Now I live in pachuca hidalgo in a city at the centre of the country, but my parents are from los altos de jalisco. in my parents' city there are some people taller than me because that zone was poblated by french, spanish and british people. In Mexico the average from the mens is 1.62 and for the woman is 1.52, jajajaja here in Mexico all the people is so small, ja i feel so good of be tall, I'm proud, my wife will be tall, but now I'm dating with a pretty mexican girl 1.86, she is so beautiful and obvious her parents are not from Mexico, they are from france.

The worlds tallest man is Turkish. Sultan Kosen is his name.

i'm 18 and 6'5 or about 1.96 meters in german, italian, and irish

i'm still growing. in the last 4 months i have grown about one inch. i'm the same height as my dad and my uncles are both a couple inches taller, but my mom is only 5'4, or 1.6 meters, and my sister is just barely 5'1, or 1'5 meters.

i'm from detroit michigan in the u.s. and other than my dad we are basically taller than anybody in the area.

my grandparents live in germany and i visited them last summer. for the first time i felt almost normal height, but we don't have free health care. if you don't have insurance you don't get help. when i was 13 i broke my wrist. i needed surgery and they denied me.

my wrist is still messed up.

Go to the city of Split in Croatia. Research shows that one out of 50 is taller than 2.00 meters at the age of 18 (in france, it is one of 5000). I live in Zagreb, Croatia, but my origins are from Dinaric Alps. In my family, i'm the one of the shortest and i am 1.93 meters tall and weigh 120 kilograms with almost no fat. When I go out in Zagreb, in the club i see people around me. When I do same thing in Split, i have a feeling that there is a wall of people around me. I work in an insurance company. Five of us in my department are from dinaric alps and nobody is under 192 centimeters and 110 kilograms. I don't have to say that I don't feel tall, because nearby are Hercegovina, Monte negro, parts of Serbia, Slovenia.

I found that article interesting, my dad's six feet tall and i'm 6'3" tall. I do notice that when I go out places here in canada, people here are on average between 5'7" and 6 feet tall. I can thank my grandparents from the Netherlands for being tall.

According to a recent study, male adolescents in the Dinaric Alps (mountain range in Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina etc.) are on average 1 cm taller than dutch adolescents, with the females coming close to dutch females.

Im 6.5in (1.96m) from Slovakia and in my country are really many people who are between 6.2-6.4in.

I am a tall, 175 cm, blonde South African woman living in South Korea. I feel really tall here. It got me wondering who the tallest people in the world are and I found the article really interesting!

I love how so many people boast about being tall and pretend to be so modest about it. It's what's on the inside that counts, not on the outside.

I live in California and am 6' 4" tall (193cm). When I lived in Iowa I didn't feel usual - there a lots of people of Northern European ancestry there (German, Swedish, Norwegian). In California I sometimes feel like a giant. There are so many people of Mexican and Asian background in my city and they are almost always much shorter.

My father is a Korean man, born in Corsica but living in Brazil. My mother is Norwegian, born in Italy, who met my father in Paraguay where I was born. I grew up in Switzerland and Montana, but now live in Tanzania. My father is 5'7", and my mother is 5'11", but I am 6'2". My younger sister Karma, who lives in New Zealand is 6'0" and 18 years old!

Pretty interesting. Me and my dad are Americans with dutch ancestry. He is 6'4 and I'm 6'1. My grandfather was really tall also.

16 in 1 month and just over 6'1, (1.86m) :)

My whole family is from the Netherlands, and all of my uncles are easily 6'4". my dad being 6'4", the shortest of his four brothers. I'm 15 y/o and 6'0". Last year I was about 5'6", but I've had a crazy growth spurt.

I have a dutch passport but both my parents are chinese. My dad is 176cm and my mom's like 170. i live in budapest and currently in china. i turned 16 about two months ago. i measured 177.5cm a month ago, now i measure 179cm at my gym. In southern china the average guys are like 173. :P i look big and healthy. but where my grandma lives in northern part is around 176 but near siberia, people are easy 180+.

sounds boring but just sharing it.

my cousin is a huge chinese btw. he is 185 at the age of 14 only.

This makes me feel unbelievably short. I'm about 1.47 m. Sigh.

An American here! 204.75 cm tall, just a hair under 6'9".

Hello, i'm 1.90 m. Dutch man i have four really good friends and they are taller then me. I'm not small in Holland but really not considered being tall. Being called tall here in Holland starts around 1.95 m. I travelled all over the world, and everywhere i felt tall walking over streets looking over hats/heads. that starts already in Germany and Belgium our neighbours.

I am doing research on the tallest people in the world. I am a black american women 6'2 and a five year old that is 4'3, it is really nice to hear the statistics in other countries.

Another dutchman here. I'm also forced to agree with this article. I've just turned 17 about a month ago, and I'm 1.90 metres now, and still growing. Also, my uncle and cousin are just over 2 metres and a friend of mine even reaches the 2.10

I agree with this person from montenegro above.

we are pretty tall people,i m not that tall, just 5'8'',when i m around my friends they are all 6 feet and more,but when i was in some other countries in europe i felt so tall:-)especially around spanish people who are average 5'7''.that is why i like spanish boys:-)LOL

Hello. I am Bosnian and I am really tall. I am 9 and I am over 7 feet tall. I have big feet and I can't walk properly. Thanks for reading.

hi im montenegrin and im 184cm and just turned 14. i am bigger than all my classmates and i have 7 dutch boys in my class.

Hello! I am an Ecuadorian and in my country I am tall (178 cm). I am living now in Wageningen, Netherlands, and I can appreciate the statistics presented: Here I feel small among the lofty Dutch people! It's true, however, that now many Netherland nationals are not the "typical" Dutch. Also, in Ecuador there are many Dutch people, some that have been there for decades, and almost all of them are famous for being really tall. Does biking have something to do with this? I have never met someone from Montenegro or a Maasai, but Danes are also tall, though I perceive that Dutch people are taller, while the (few) Albanese people I know are smaller. But for me the bottom line is that all of this does not matter at all, except as a nice theme of conversation and to appreciate one more element of the wonderful diversity of our planet!

I'm Dutch, but born and raised in Texas and my dad was 6'3 and I'm 6'2 (21 y/o). I heard when I was about 16 that the Dutch were the tallest nation. I believe it.

That's not true that Dutch are the tallest nation on earth! Some of the tallest people are from Dinaric Alps (especially from Herzegovina and Montenegro). Average male height is 186 cm (17yo boys measured), while Dutch are 184cm and males from 20-30yo were measured. Considering that people can grow till 20yo, Herzegovians and Montenegrians are *the tallest, for sure*. I was 184cm at age 13, now I'm 19yo and my height is unfortunately only 1 cm higher.

I am a 16 year old Englishman and 6'2 1/2. Even though this is well above average height in the United Kingdom, I feel quite short in comparison to others in my year group. One lad is about 6'5" but the year group below me seems to have even taller people. I was one of the tallest at primary school and now I am probably in between.

I'm dutch and 13 years old and I'm 5.6 feet/172 cm tall. I am still growing.

It is true that that we are on average the tallest.

I'm also Dutch. And I am standing high and proud with my 6'4 (1.95m).

You must also consider the fact that currently there are a lot of immigrants in the Netherlands, who drag the average down. Montenegro has mostly a homogeneous population.

Well one of the reasons why Dutch are taller on average is because of the population considered and the ethnic groups forming the studies. US male population considered in this study is a lot larger than any European group. Second most important aspect are the ethnic groups which consist of many Europeans, Asians and middle eastern people who immigrated into US bringing the national average down.

Over all there are many factors considered in statistics and FYI half the stats you hear on your TV are just inaccurate by statistical calculations and formulas.

It's all about genes and diet. I am 5'10" and I have a son who is 13 and is almost as tall as me. The doctors said he will be between 6'2" and 6'4" when he is done growing. I have tall people in my family but they are cousins. 6'2"-6'6" . The Dutch are the tallest as a whole nation. Sure there are taller individuals but on "average" they are the tallest nation as a whole. It might change in time. It depends on the diet and genes of the families tested. We are not short at 5'10" as American men on average. But there are some tall guys here too!

I'm sure the Dutch must be the tallest in the world because the Netherlands is so flat. They all stand up very straight and stretch their backs tall to try and get a better view.

Well I'm Dutch, but I'm not tall at all xD I'm only 1.60 or something.. Tho I'm a 15 year old girl, so maybe that's not too weird.. Still I'm one of the shortest of my school.

Ive been in Holland, people were tall, no1 the average is that high though, it's just too much.

About me: I'm Albanian, well Northern Albanian(we are taller than the other part) I'm 17, 1.91m tall and most northern Albanians(males) are taller than 1.80.

Well for the new generation, is very common for males to be over 1.80 through-out all the country. Don't expect 30+ years old Albanians to be huge as they've suffered malnutrition and stuff like that during communism.

I am from Denmark and was always being put in the front row in pictures and had to wear high heels to make up for my height. Now I live in Texas and am taller than most the guys here. All the people I know from Holland are pretty tall, so this doesn't surprise me.

I've been to the Netherlands before, but really: The average height is not 6'1'', impossible. I don't believe these statistics.

My mother came over to Canada from Holland post WWII. She was 5' 9" in the '50's so very tall.

Not sure why there is such concern about whether the study refers to the tallest women or the tallest men. I am a female (and a feminist) and was not offended. I would like to think that we have all moved past those sorts of concerns.... ;-)

Remember that just because you're tall, doesn't mean you could do it all. I heard some european girls who like gymnastics but they couldn't perform the more difficult maneuvers because they were too lengthy. Most tall people have a difficult time in doing jobs that require a lot of bending. The real thing that defines a person is its heart.

So poverty is a lifestyle choice?

For starters Dutch are the tallest in world in BOTH gender groups and sine the survey studied the average overall, the Dutch came up on top.

I'm Dutch/German, 178cm and when I went to Amsterdam last week I felt so SHORT! As someone else mentioned, quite a few of the people there were nearing 7". My cousin Deliana and I drove to Germany..My gosh don't get me started on Germans...They're well over 7".

Dear sexist, you would measure men, or the average of both men and women not the shortest sex for the shortest people.

after visiting Amsterdam i can attest to the height of the dutch. when the hotel owner in his 30s stood up to register us i had to look up at him. He was 6 foot 9 and said there were many men similar to him there! This guys son who was 12 years old was already 6 foot 1. I am a 5 foot 7 inch tall american and felt very small there.

I'm also a girl from Holland, 1.80 tall. I was 1.72 or so at age 12, stopped growing at age 13. (ha.)

It's really true that compared to other countries, the Dutch are much taller. When I'm in a foreign country, I feel like I'm a giant while in Holland I'm quite ok.

I´m a 6´6 spaniard. In my country there has been an incredible improvement too. However we are far from dutch people in terms of average but we are world champions in basketball! VIVA ESPAÑA!

Actually since Montenegro became independent they are now statistically the tallest nation.

re: The country with the tallest people on average - I am sure it used to be Netherlands, but I doubt be willing to bet that it is only in the 2nd place since Montenegro became an independent state. Contrary to what someone above said, the people from the Dinaric Alps (Montenegro, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Lika, parts of Albania...) do not make up the majority of the population Croatia, Bosnia, and certainly not Serbia or Kosovo, but definitely make up the absolute majority of the tiny republic of Montenegro, and yes, it is very well known that Montenegrans are exceptionally tall.

I'm still confused on why they need to make door frames larger. What is the average ceiling height in the Netherlands? Is it not 8 feet (2.4m) like in most European and North American countries?

I'm 6'2", and have no trouble fitting through door frames. With 8 foot ceilings most door frames should be well over seven feet tall. In metric terms they should on average be over 2 meters tall.

I understand that there can be people taller, since this is only an average, but I would be hard pressed to believe there is huge number of Dutch people nearing 7' tall.

Hi, I'm a 20 year old woman from Holland. And yes I am tall considering the average heights in other countries. Alright, even in Holland I'm seen as a tall girl, but I'm not enormous, there are enough girls almost my height or taller. Yes, I am 1.80m. (For the record, I was 1.75m when I was 12 when my classmates were only about 1.45m on average)

But well, it looks like the Dutch industry hasn't quite got to the point were they understand that Dutch people are taller. Or they do but they think we still have size 30 in waist even though we're a lot taller. So please be happy if your smaller....

Anon4898 --

this isn't really true at all, the dutch are still the tallest in the world on average. and if they were (which they aren't) it would be all over on google if u type 'tallest people in the world'

yeah, I too have heard (somewhere on the internet as well as met individuals) that the tallest people are the dinaric alps people starting from northern albania going up north to montenegro, bosnia, croatia, perhaps serbs+kosovans too.

[quote]Actually this is not true. The tallest people scientifically are people from the Balkans - independent studies of boys & girls at 17 years of age in the Dinaric Alps (Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Montenegro) region of the Balkans determined that average height of boys is 6'1.1". The Dutch had the 2nd tallest averages.[/quote]

Ehm... source, please....

Dear feminists: Men are taller than women. This is a fact of nature. This article is about the TALLEST people. Therefore they measured the MEN. If you want to do an article on the SHORTEST people you would measure the SHORTEST people in each subset. Get it?

well, yes it is a bit annoying that the study referenced was only on men, but that may have been the only study available to the writer at the time. also, you can probably assume that the country with the tallest men probably have the tallest women too, so the basic question of which country has the tallest people is answered--unless there's a secret country of amazon women out there that no one has discovered yet!

I too was amazed and disgusted that this article apparently takes MEN to be the prototype human being/"average adult". Women account for 50% of the population, and yet are treated like some kind of subspecies of the male, who is the "real" human being and apparently can stand in for "all adults". Can you imagine if the situation were reversed, and the article took the average woman's height in each country and labeled it as "the average height for all adults" without bothering to mention it was for women only? That would NEVER happen. Never.

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” -- Simone de Beauvoir

Actually this is not true. The tallest people scientifically are people from the Balkans - independent studies of boys & girls at 17 years of age in the Dinaric Alps (Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Montenegro) region of the Balkans determined that average height of boys is 6'1.1". The Dutch had the 2nd tallest averages.

It's really amazing to me that this article consistently refers to "average height" or "average height for all adults" when the figures given are obviously for men only. Think about it. The average American (or Dutch)woman is significantly shorter than the figures listed.

I would like to clarify something to this person and his comments in U.S.A Health care.Please! Please! read and inform yourself more. I am a doctor and I deal myself every day in a County hospital here in USA in how to referrer patients to specialist who WON'T !!!!see a patient if he does not have insurance or money to pay specially if it is a "Relative" emergency things that are not,now,but could potentially become DEATH later.Please!!! Learn before saying our system is a "FREE CHOICE" and that every body have access to it this far from being real.

Finally something that makes us different, or puts us in the spotlight. We're only with 16 million, and most people in the world wouldn't even know where our country exactly lies.

Greetings, a Dutchman (1.90 meter)

You're both right and wrong. The first post is right in that the government provides FREE medical care to the indigent. But, you must have transportation or the money to provide it to get to the free clinic or hospital. Dallas, TX is a great example. Parkland Hospital has surgeons of all kinds on call 24/7. Most accident victims are transported to Parkland when it is possible. However, not all of them have medical insurance. It doesn't matter. Parkland treats all patients as if they are fully insured. That is why Parkland loses money every year. They cannot collect for the services they provide in about 75% of the treatments.

Actually, healthcare isn't available to everyone in the US. There may be clinics and government programs to assist a few, but by and large if you don't have the money to pay the doctor, you don't have a doctor.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "free choice," but the truth is that many people can't choose for healthcare. I recently read about a young boy who died because his family didn't have money for a dentist; the infection in his tooth spread to his brain and he died. I don't know of any choice that he or his mother could have made that would have prevented that.

It's true that healthcare isn't imposed on us, but at the same time, it's not available to everyone, and that shows up in our national health statistics.

Healthcare IS available in the United States for everyone. It is a "free choice" and you can change your life style to "include or exclude" healthcare and it is NOT imposed on you by "big government" and it is not because of a "lack of health care" as stated in this article! Please put a Note in this article to clarify this very important point!