Dataset
Average height of men by year of birth
owid.average-height-of-men-by-year-of-birth
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About
Heights by birth decade and country, both before and after 1800.
Cite as: Various sources (2015) – processed by Our World in Data. “Height (Baten and Blum 2015)” [dataset]. Various sources, “Clio-Infra – Biological Standards of Living” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1550–2000
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2017-09-09
- Units
- cm
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-of-men-by-year-of-birth
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| height__baten_and_blum_2015 | number | Height (Baten and Blum 2015) (cm) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |