Dataset
Average height of men by decade of birth
owid.average-height-of-men-for-selected-countries
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About
Reconstruction of human heights by birth decade using a variety of different sources.
Cite as: Baten and Blum (2014) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Human height” [dataset]. Baten and Blum, “Height” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1550–2000
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2024-12-31
- Units
- cm
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-height-of-men-for-selected-countries
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 | number | Human height (cm) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |