Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD The average height for women is different across the world. In the United States, the ...

This shows that as living conditions improve, men's height and weight increase more than twice as quickly as women's. The average female height increased 1.9 per cent from 159 cm to 162 cm during ...

In the UK, where the HDI rose from 0.8 in 1900 to 0.94 in 2022, the average height of women rose from 159cm to 162cm, an increase of 1.9%. For men, it rose from 170cm to 177cm, an increase of 4%.