An average female's height increased 1.9 per cent from 159 cm to 162 cm during the first half of the century, while average male height rose 4 per cent from 170 cm to 177 cm.

A gender specialist at the University of Genoa, in Italy, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, in the U.S., and a ...

The trend was also confirmed by assessing data from the World Bank’s Gini Index ... they found that women’s average height increased by 0.25 centimeters every five years, while that of men increased ...