TY - JOUR
T1 - A century of trends in adult human height
AU - NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
AU - Pooled Analysis and Writing
AU - Country and Regional Data
AU - Bentham, James
AU - Di Cesare, Mariachiara
AU - Stevens, Gretchen A.
AU - Zhou, Bin
AU - Bixby, Honor
AU - Cowan, Melanie
AU - Fortunato, Léa
AU - Bennett, James E.
AU - Danaei, Goodarz
AU - Hajifathalian, Kaveh
AU - Lu, Yuan
AU - Riley, Leanne M.
AU - Laxmaiah, Avula
AU - Kontis, Vasilis
AU - Paciorek, Christopher J.
AU - Riboli, Elio
AU - Ezzati, Majid
AU - Abdeen, Ziad A.
AU - Hamid, Zargar Abdul
AU - Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.
AU - Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin
AU - Adams, Robert
AU - Aekplakorn, Wichai
AU - Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.
AU - Agyemang, Charles
AU - Ahmadvand, Alireza
AU - Ahrens, Wolfgang
AU - Alhazzaa, Hazzaa M.
AU - Al-Othman, Amani Rashed
AU - Raddadi, Rajaa Al
AU - Ali, Mohamed M.
AU - Alkerwi, Ala’A
AU - Alvarez-Pedrerol, Mar
AU - Aly, Eman
AU - Amouyel, Philippe
AU - Amuzu, Antoinette
AU - Andersen, Lars Bo
AU - Anderssen, Sigmund A.
AU - Anjana, Ranjit Mohan
AU - Aounallah-Skhiri, Hajer
AU - Ariansen, Inger
AU - Aris, Tahir
AU - Arlappa, Nimmathota
AU - Arveiler, Dominique
AU - Assah, Felix K.
AU - Avdicová, Mária
AU - Azizi, Fereidoun
AU - Babu, Bontha V.
AU - Bahijri, Suhad
AU - Murtagh, Elaine M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3– 19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8– 144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
AB - Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3– 19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8– 144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85143997417
U2 - 10.7554/elife.13410
DO - 10.7554/elife.13410
M3 - Article
C2 - 27458798
AN - SCOPUS:85143997417
SN - 2050-084X
VL - 5
JO - eLife
JF - eLife
M1 - e13410
ER -