The average growth of men in the world, Russia. Table: ideal, normal, low, high growth by race, nationality, people. What does it depend on

Scientific evidence shows that over the last century has increased the average height of men and women. People of the world have increased by about 15 cm. This is the conclusion reached by researchers of London College.

Global growth indicators

Human growth - the value which is measured by the linear distance from the top of the head to brake the plane. In another way it is called a long body. Categorization was developed to detect the average, low and high rise, which classifies the average based on the existing international standards.

headings	Height
Man	Woman
Low	dwarf	Up to 129.9	Up to 120.9
very low	130,0 – 149,9	121,0 – 139,9
small	150,0 – 159,9	140,0 – 148,9
Average	below average	160,0 – 163,9	149,0 – 152,9
Central	164,0 – 166,9	153,0 – 155,9
above the average	167,0 – 169,9	156,0 – 158,9
Tall	greater	170,0 – 179,9	159,0 – 167,9
Very big	180,0 – 199,9	168,0 – 186,9
giant	Of 200.0 and above	Of 187.0 and above

Proper measurement is carried out in the morning, the head should not be lowered, the knees should be straightened, arms extended along the body. This value is part of the physical development of people.

Man grows out of the reproduction and division of cells. Changes may be in a big way, and in the smaller. When adding in the growth of cell fusion processes are active, and a decrease in old age the reverse process of disintegration. After the establishment of continuous growth balanced synthesis and breakdown.

What determines growth

Factors that affect the growth process is divided into internal and external. According to this classification, the majority of health indicators studied different nations.

The internal (endogenous) include:

• Injury at birth or obtained after. Each bone growth zone has - epiphyseal plate. Due to them the bone increases in length. For injuries growth process may change.
• Disruptions to the endocrine system. Hormones regulate most of the processes of the human body's vital functions, including bone growth. Increasing the length of the bone and soft tissue occurs under the action of growth hormone deficiency in children which inhibits the development.
• Genetics. It is formed from the ratio of parent genes. Its effect is about 60-80%. If the father and mother are high, the chances are that they will be born undersized child, is practically impossible. This was confirmed by a large-scale study by researchers at Britain. They found that for the growth of 180 corresponds to a combination of genes.

  

External (exogenous) factors are:

• Natural living conditions.
• These include: climate, soil, topography, humidity, water, flora and fauna. Taken together, these factors have an impact on the development of the human body and growth.
• Ecology.
• Directly affects the health of the body, particularly on the state of the endocrine system.
• Social factors: national traditions, food, education, profession, family values, the quality of care.

High growth is usually associated with excessive production of growth hormone, the cause of which may be the presence of a genetic disorder of female extra chromosomes. Stunting occurs due to abnormal development of the skeletal system.

How can the growth of

Studies have shown that in some cases the body length may vary due to a reduction or increase in the distance between the plates of the vertebral column.

Cases where growth can vary:

• Waking up in the morning, you may find that the increase was more than 2 cm. By evening, he again becomes smaller.
• Spruce stand on one leg, then the growth will be more than 1 cm.
• With intense physical exertion the human body is extended for a short time.
• The astronaut, who is a long time in weightlessness, grows to 8-10 cm. After returning to their home planet, the spine to its original shape. Doctors warn that it is dangerous to health.
  
• After death, the body length is increased by about 5 cm.

Depending on age

Rusty person begins in the mother's womb:

• By the end of 9 months of its body length is approximately 49-52 cm.
• During the first year of life, there is the largest increase in growth over a lifetime, and 50% of the original.
• Is added an average of 25 cm.
• For the second year in a body is extended - by 20%, about 10 cm.
• From 3 to 7 years of a child's body is elongated by 6-7 cm.
• The process is slowed down before puberty.

The highest concentration of growth hormone is seen in young men 13-14 years old and the girls in the 11-12 age at puberty. Girls at this time ahead of the growth of the boys, who, after 14-16 years, distilled girls, and this difference is maintained until the end of life. During the year, the teenager can increase growth of 5-8 cm. Process Peak is reached to 15-16 years for girls and 18-19 years in boys.

Permanent indicator body length is 20 years. In some cases, the body grows up to 27 years.

After 50 years, 10 years, every increase becomes smaller than 1 cm. This is due to the fact that the spine loses its elasticity with age and is curved.

It is interesting that during the period from birth to 25-27 years, body length increases 3-3.5 times. The legs are lengthened by 5 times, the hands - 4, and the body - 3 times.

Russian indicators

In the XVI century. the average growth of Russian men was 165 cm, is it possible to find out the excavations of archaeologists. People began to grow since the beginning of the XX century., It is caused by a worldwide acceleration. Over the past decade, the growth of women in Russia has changed in a big way.

Jump in has occurred, since the 40-ies. XX century., In the postwar period. Anthropologists link this event to the improvement of social factors and quality of life in general. In the 60-70-ies. the average height was 168 cm. By the early 90-ies. changed to 11 cm, and was 176 cm. Now the average height is considered to be 178 cm in men.

Average growth in the world

Average growth of male experts have calculated the world, analyzing the performance of residents of 129 countries. Age studied from 18 to 40 years. Over the past century, it has increased by 10 cm. This was due to the improvement of quality of health care, nutrition and the environment.

A study published in Life magazine, shows how the changes. The representatives of the strong half of mankind, who were born in 1896, he was 140 cm, and in those who was born 100 years later, he was 160 cm. 1 century this value has increased by 20 cm.

The average growth of men in the world today is 165 cm. The difference in the various nations of the planet is in the range 8-12 cm.

Classification by race

genetic program individual races incorporated in the DNA molecule. She is characterized by cyclical changes taking place for centuries. After lifting there is a decline, and vice versa. Race - biological belonging to a certain type of people.

By racial grounds applies:

• hair color and shape;
• color of the skin;
• shapes of different body parts;
• body length.

Mankind is divided into 3 large race:

• Negro-Australoid - approximately 10% of the world's population, more and more live on the African continent.
• Euro-Asian - the representatives of this race spread across all the continents, but the greater number of their representatives live in the North and South America, Australia, the Near East and Central Asia are the largest race and make up 40% of all residents planet.
• Asian-American (Mongoloid) - live in Asia, Indonesia and Siberia.

Average growth Nilotic men is 180 cm. In-Negroid race Australoid growth varies, but often high. Nilotic negros considered the highest people in the world. Representatives Sudanese small races have average growth, and for the South African type characterized by a low height. Since 70-ies. XX century. from the African Group growth is to reduce, by about 5-7 cm below the people were.

Growth Euro Asian race from very low to high. Peoples living close to the north, have a higher growth. The Baltic and Mediterranean sub-group had a median growth. Ancestors - Cro-Magnons in primitive times were tall, the average was 185 cm.

In the Middle Ages in Europe the growth was 165 cm, it was confirmed by excavations that were carried out on the site of the eruption of Vesuvius.

Mongoloid have elongated body proportions, but the increase is mainly medium. Average growth of northern Chinese males is 169-170 cm in the southern Mongoloids - 163-169 cm. Representatives of the strong half of China had an average growth of 158-161 cm. Their ancestors were high, growth was 190 cm. Skeletons ancestors of this growth were found during excavations near the city of Jinan.

Highest nationality

The average growth of men in the world at 19 cm less than the growth of the highest nations. According to statistics from the highest men considered to be the Montenegrins, and the Dutch. Their average height is 184 cm. At the beginning of the XX century. it amounted to 177 cm. Anthropologists explain tall these peoples genetic predisposition.

In the Upper paleolith that existed 50 thousand. years ago, the ancestors of these nations engaged in hunting mammoths, which allowed to eat a lot of high quality protein and calcium, which was the development of a population with a very tall men. The following height men live in Latvia, Belgium, Iceland, Denmark and Serbia.

The biggest jump in growth over the past 100 years have seen the Irish men. They have grown from 156 cm to 173.8 cm. Even 50 years ago, the highest men think Americans. The average in the 60s. XX century. they had a 177 cm.

African nations absent from the ranking of scientists because of the complexity of collecting information. But British anthropologists note that on the Nile River in south-western Ethiopia and in the African Lakes living people, men with an average of 190 cm in height.

Height	184 cm	181 cm	180 cm	179 cm	178 cm
Countries	Netherlands Montenegro	Latvia Serbia Iceland Belgium Denmark	Croatia Germany Norway Sweden Slovenia Finland	France Slovakia Lithuania Australia	Russia Ukraine Switzerland Byelorussia Canada United Kingdom Macedonia New Zealand Luxembourg

Interesting Facts

Concluded that tall people are more intelligent than the low, the researchers came to the University of Edinburgh, who studied the DNA of more than 7 thousand. person. intelligence level depending on the growth was found. The researchers hypothesized that in 70% of cases, the longer the human body, the higher the IQ. Low growth makes it possible to live longer. This conclusion was Italian scientists.

They studied the life expectancy of 500 men who were born from 1866 to 1915. It turned out that the low men lived an average of two years longer than high. This was confirmed by researchers from Spain. They studied 1.5 Mill. representatives of a strong half of humanity, and came to the same conclusions as the Italian colleagues.

Interesting Facts:

• The highest man - Robert Pershing Wadlow from Alton United States. Its body length is 2.72 m. He lived in the middle of the XX century. Now the highest is considered a citizen of Turkey - Sultan Kesene. The lowest man - from Nepalese village Rimholi. His height of 56 cm.
  
• The King Gustav Adolf was a dwarf army.
• There are formulas for calculating growth, which will have a child, when he becomes an adult.
• Growth of 2-year-old child is multiplied by 2.
• To increase the mother's father added growth and the resulting sum is divided by 2. If you want to find the girl's growth, followed by take away 5, the boy - add 5.
• The whole village undersized found in China in 1936 The average length of their bodies was 120 cm.
• The most low-growing tribe considered settlers near the border of Peru and Brazil. Dwarfs this tribe not higher than 105 cm.
• Peter considered great of its body length was - 2.03 m.
• In 1920 Opened growth hormone. In 1944 It was obtained as crystals from animal pituitary. In 1956 human growth hormone was derived - growth hormone, and in 1958 he was first introduced to the child. His body does not produce the hormone alone, the treatment was effective.

Average growth rate is cyclical in nature. Now the level is approaching the maximum, and then will come the time stability, and then start declining. However, scientists around the world have noted that the average height of men in Russia was already reduced because of environmental degradation and declining food quality.

Author: Doroshenko MR

Registration of the article: Lozinski Oleg

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