Are the Dutch Really that Tall? Let's Find Out 

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O how funny ha ha ha....

@@mariadebake5483 Droogkloot.

Same for Colorado, USA but I'm still average height at 175cm...

I am Somalia men born In the Netherlands I lived in England and Netherlands both countries,,,however its complete contrast on how people are so much smaller in London then in Rotterdam were I currently live ,,,,,I am 189cm (6'2.5) with out shoes which is barefoot imagine that I have Beene dwarfed many times I sometimes would measure and could't believe that I felt small at 1,89m tall but I am still growing anyways has young boy,,,inshallah.

@@kawazaki23I’ve seen you on Quora..

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@@VanquisherOfThots If you can read I said I was 'plain average', and 'sometimes' I felt small..

I'm 184cm and Dutch and i've had many times where i felt small. I was almost that tall at 10 years old. I was the tallest kid in class. Then when i was 13 i began to lose my advantage and i got stuck at 184cm 😢

I'm curious about your comment, I'm about the same height as you and I've seen so many people lie or don't even know their own heigth and label themselves as taller, because I find hard to believe that someone can feel "short" at 190cm let alone 195 in a country that is 182.9 cm on average, that's at least 3 inches of difference, is like feeling short at 6 ft in the USA while the average being 5'9, like almost everyone in the USA wishes to be 6ft.

@@slytheravenx2716it's worse than that: 5'9/175 cm is average for the entire male population in the US, it's 5'10/178 for young men only (both based on measured data), since people lose some height as they age. Likewise it's 181.2 for all men in the Netherlands, 182.9 for young men (self-reported). So the difference between the US and Netherlands is about 2 inches/5 cm if not slightly less, meaning 195 in the Netherlands is equivalent to 190 in the US and so on. That's how ridiculous such accounts are, the Dutch are tall but they're not THAT tall compared to most European countries.

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1.55-1.65m is considered perfect height for women in india

??? 1.67 cm is woman average. Its the men that are so tall. Men have an average of 184 cm In Thailand the young generation are also tall. I went to Thailand in 2019 and all young men were just under my height. Oh I’m 184.5 cm….

@@Momoa786 i'm from thailand and i'm 181 cm lol

@@Momoa786 i'm 14 years old, so maybe i can grow up to +190 cm

I am a 169cm American male. I think you guys are ALL tall!

omg it must’ve been terrible!!!

You should cut your leg to the knee to become normal woman instead of giant.

@@simplyyellow6240 "Normal woman" would be an exaggeration, but it is a good idea.

Happy Halloween! 😂

Beste Theo. Huizen die in 2010 zijn gebouwd hebben nog steeds een hoogte van 2 meter. Nieuwbouwhuizen uit 2020 hebben een hoogte van 2 meter 10. Je hoeft mij niets wijs te maken ik woon namelijk in een nieuwbouwhuis uit 2020.

This is nonsense.

@@bodigames Ik ben gepensioneerd architect, ik ben in 2010 gestopt. Het bouwbesluit was toen al gewijzigd en de deuren moesten 2,40 meter hoog zijn. Dat gold toen ook voor de vrije hoogte boven de trap. Verdiepingen moesten een vrije hoogte hebben van 2,60 meter. De laatste woningen die ik hen gerealiseerd voldoen aan deze nieuwe normen. Anders had ik geen vergunningen gekregen. Als er in 2020 nog woningen zijn gebouwd met deuren van 2,1- meter, dan hebben ambtenaren zitten slapen, of er is van de vergunning afgeweken.

Great part of the Doors here (Mexico) are around 7'5. It's crazy seems Mexico is a quite wild and random place, as you can easily see someone of 7'0 tall, you can also easily see someone being only 5'0.

​@@ruminantdastellar7740that's not true at all

That is nonsense because all people get children, not just the tall ones, so it is not natural selection. That leaves the fact that Dutch drink more milk and consume more milk products then others. Similar to the Masai people of Kenia, they live on mostly cow milk and are way taller then others. Milk of course has a lot of growth hormone because it is ment for baby cows. So that makes sense. Not this "natural selection" thing. On average taller people live shorter lives and have more ailments, like back problems. Probably a good idea to go vegan. Meat and milk are harmful to the body and the environment whatever the respective lobyists are trying to sell you.

@@DutchmanAmsterdam According to the experts it all has to do with the fact that tall Dutch choose also a tall partner, so their children are also giants. Doctors are telling us that food is no issue because we eat the same food as for example the polish of Britisch people, and they are smaller.

@@DutchmanAmsterdam nope not true and this is the key reason why dutch people are becoming shorter blame y'all selfs

@@kawazaki23 Dutch people aren't becoming shorter, what are you talking about?

@@wimschoenmakers5463 What doctors and experts are telling you those things? Dutch consume way more milk products then Polish, or probably any other people. Again this natural selection thing; if tall people prefer tall people to get children with, that happens everywhere, so it can't be the reason. I would think Swedes and Norwegians are the tallest, and blondest, actually btw.

Where did you get those numbers from? I'm just curious

@@JP-bz1zz Detailed CBS figures.

@@markovermeer1394 Thanks

In dating apps far more than 2% of Dutch girls are 183cm +, and dating apps are heavily dominated by women with not foreign backgound (aka Ethnic Dutch women)

@@ventanasdelalma7623 Dating apps are not a reliable source, though. You should know how often heights are exaggerated on those apps!

1.78m girl is below average in netherland? ain't no way

@@sf6695 Yeah, not too much but the netherlands avg is 182-183 cm

Doubt. I'm 6'1 and the average guy here is 5'11.

178 is average male height here in the US. i would've thought it was about the same for scottish people

@@frederickpeebles8142 you live in netherlands?

😅hilarious

I live in the north of the Netherlands and being 190 cm is just average

@@rinzehuitema9821 Because you subjectively feel that way, or did you actually look at the statistics? Statements turn bold quickly without backing them up with actual facts.

20%of the population in NL is not ethnically dutch, and we tend to be on the shorter side....

@@vincenzodigrande2070 people in the country side are generally taller than in the city, because of better air quality and there are less people who are ethnically dutch. My dad is 195 cm and was considered very tall in The Hague, but when we moved to this small village in the North he was very average.

@@iemand2612 I'm sorry, but it takes some serious air pollution before it robs people being able to grow tall sufficiently to not allow them to. Similarly does it not magically make people taller, even when the cleanest air is provided, if their genes and hormones are not designated to do so. It really is hormones and genes that are the window, within the opportunity by food, water, air etc. only play a minor role to how tall a person will grow. Or in other words, it requires serious starvation, or massive oxygen deprivation to not allow someone to grow as tall as their genes and hormones would designate them to. It is just how it works. And yes, you can ingest hormonal material that can highly influence this. Like when you eat chicken meat you will ingest huge amounts of oestrogen, and many men will hereby suffer from poor beard growth, delayed puberty, less penile length and grow breasts, and no, I didn't make this up, this is recent research that showed this. And the dairy, Dutch dairy comes from farms that constantly keeps the mother cows pregnant, which is totally different from animals in most other cultures like in India. Dutch dairy contains a LOT more hormones due to that. And the Dutch are the greatest consumers of cheese in the world, with a whopping 17 kilograms of cheese per year on average. Do you have any idea how many litres of fluid milk this equates to? Almost 200 of litres of milk, sometimes even more, depending on how old the cheese is .... So clean air... lol.... gimme a break....

No, tall. Tho I doubt this was a serious question

no they are not they have shrunk to 1.80 cm and the bs claim that dutch are 1.84 is complete bs has well

They meant the average Dutch person, as men being 1.83 mt average and women being a bit over 1.68 mt average makes them collide in 175,62 mark, obviously the translated wrong 175,62 cm which should be more 5´9 than 5´7 but I already noticed many Europeans suck when converting centimeters/meters to feet inch system... because they translate X meters to X feet... but they fail to realize there are 12 inches in a feet, so you cannot do for example 1.7562 mt to feet = 5.7618 feet and assume those 5.761811 feet mean 5 feet 7,61811 inches because the inches cannot be converted directly from feet, you should rather just take aside the 5 feet number for later and work transforming 0,761811 feet to inches , all you need to do is multiply those 0,761811 x 12 and you will immediately have how many inches are there in the decimal feet = you have a result of 9,1416. Which means average Dutch person(men and women combined) are 5´9,1416 inches which would translate to 5´9 1/7 inches. Probably Registered more as 5´9 1/4 inches, as the American system usually rounds up or down from 1/4 - 1/2 - 3/4 etc for listing, and 5´9 1/7 is still closer to 5´9 1/4 than to 5´9 flat

Are you from the Netherlands?

@@kawazaki23 bruh

@@kawazaki23 If It’s only *180 cm, why you saying you’re short at 189cm? That’s literally more than 3 inches above the average.

Are you from Northern or Southern part in the Netherlands.

since when is 1.87 average

I’m a 1.68 asian and traveling through the Netherlands, I feel like a midget here lmaoo.

Lol now 187cm is average 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm 183 cm tall and I haven't ever felt short in Netherlands. Most people are only a few inches taller than me which is not noticeable at all. Very occasionally I encounter 195 cm+ giants that tower over me but still people blow Netherlands height way out of proportion. The comments would have you believe that anything under 190 cm is midget level height but that's not true at all.

195 cm would make you taller than 98% of the male Dutch population and is the equivalent of 190 cm/6'3 in the US. Men noticeably taller than you are less than 1%. Sure dude.

Why cap?

sorry to break it you bud but you're not 6'5

@@hkleider This could be explained partly if he lives outside of a major city. Due to immigrants all going to the cities. Also people tend to hang around people similar to them.

it was not because of milk, though there is a correlation. milk doesn't make people grow taller. better nutrition does though, and dairy is calorie dense. dutch nutrition improved massively from 1800 to the mid 1900s, hence the growth

French and Dutch were the same height in 1900. Considering that nutrition improved all over Western Europe and Dutch have become way taller than other Western Europeans, how do you explain the difference today?

@@cyberprimate genetics

@@pdfbanana Yes possibly.

No, they did not. The Dutch outgrew the French for a different reason: the much later industrialisation of the Netherlands meant that child mortality rates remained higher for much longer, so dysgenics kicked in later. It has always been the dumb and the genetically unfit who tended to have the highest number of children and thanks to high child mortality this excess offspring of theirs died off, after all, physical health including a good immune system strongly correlates with mental health (because the brain is 85% of the genome so a massive target for mutations which also cause physical anomalies and poor health) while the fewer but healthier children of the genetically fit and intelligent had a much better chance at survival. Industrialisation drove down child mortality rates to the point where the dumb and the sick aren't just outbreeding the rest, but their offspring almost always makes it to adulthood and there's a degeneration of the gene pool. Length and physical fitness correlate with intelligence so what we are seeing is an artefact of the later onset of lowering child mortality.

How common you can see a native Dutch teen who reachs 2 meters or taller in your city? 1 in 20? 1 in 30? 1 in 50?

Let's swap this around, when you are deficient in magnesium, sure you might not grow as tall as you would have. When you are not deficient though, more magnesium will not magically make humans grow taller. What makes you taller is genetics and hormones. The Dutch have a high dairy intake, with lots of rather concentrated dairy products. Dairy contains natural hormones (IGF-1)that makes calfs grow, but also other species if they decide to consume it. Also, we like to eat a lot of plastic packaged foods, and I mean acidous, moist and fatty foods, with plastic touching it all day on a very large surface. Like chicken filets. But also tomato puree in tin cans with plastic coatings. These hormonal disrupting chemicals that leak from this type of packaging is responsible for a lot of women to turn fertile increasingly young, and male to actually grow fertile at a higher age. When you turn fertile your body will not grow much any more. See the correlation? It is a combination of things, and magnesium can be a contributing factor, as growth of bones will require magnesium, but it is not the cause.

So why are the dutch above the rivers taller then the ones in the south? 🎼

@@sabinesteil4690 Genetics, historically these rivers were hard to cross.

@@vincenzodigrande2070 The difference in hights is a modern one though and the dutch cross waters for many generations.

@@sabinesteil4690 It is only recently revealing due to hormonal effects, which increases the differences that are based in the genetics. The rivers may have been crossed during peace times, but were also highly highly used strategically, for instance during the 80 year war with the Spanish. The southern part, under the rivers will have a lot more genetics stemming from the south of Europe, and these people are smaller, whereas the top, northern part will have more 'viking' / 'germanic' blood. So that basis has always been there and modern circumstances regarding food have only amplified what was already there.

I said same thing this as well,,,majority are average height not many are that tall the tall people are minority trying to pose has majority thats image of dutch

Seriously. Dutch people are tall no doubt, but they aren't giant level tall that would tower over you especially if you are 6-6'3 ft

I have met some very tall Italians. 6' 7" some of them seemed. I also recall ,several French Rugby players being 6' 10" back in the 1980s.@@connectionlost7216

Yeah I'm 188 cm and felt "normal tall" in the Netherlands, rarely did I meet people towering over me and occasionally got comments on my height, but I didn't tower over everyone either. Either people are completely clueless about their height (studies show most men overestimate their height by about 5 cm) and don't know how to tell people's heights, or the Dutch like to exaggerate the tallness thing as part of their national image. But there's some hilariously exaggerated claims online.

You can get a Dutch passport but you cannot change your ethnicity to Dutch as a non-Dutch. The Dutch are not just a nationality but an ethnic group and we are a West Frankish Germanic people with significant amounts of German and Scandinavian admixture. By the way, it's about time we stopped bitching about 'racism': ethnocentrism is just a normal and universal human instinct and should not be hurled as an accusation at people. It is just as natural to feel more connection with one's own ethnicity, than to feel more connection with one's own family.

Because *ahem* it’s called GENES

This raises the question of why this works for the Dutch but not (or to a lesser degree) for others.

My grandmother was 156 cm, my mother 163, my sister 173. My grandfather was 158, my father 172, I am 178 (brothers 178 and 180) (I am 60+ in age) How do you explain this with natural selection? Three generations from about 1880, 1916 and 1954 in average. And this is from before the giant leap in the younger generations.

@@dutchman7623 better food

If that would be true then how come adopted children from other countries grow a lot taller here too?

@@Linda-hs1lk I am Somali immigrant born in the Netherlands and when I returned from U,K I started growing taller faster then ever it might be the fresh air and better living conditions.when I came I was 1.83m now I am 1.89m and still growing taller.

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Man that question is really hard to answer because I know some folk who have been 1.90 since they were 14 but me personally have been around 1.70 till I was 17 when I started growing a lot more due to proper nutrition and fixing my sleep patterns (while still being in my growth phase) and I am now 1.85. Since 14 is in the middle of puberty a 14 year old boy can be either 1.60 or 1.90 so giving an average would not mean anything.

True enough, genetic research shows that partner choice (tall people mate with other tall people) is a descisive factor why dutch people are (on average) very tall.

@@petertraudes106 This means that Dutch shorties merry other Dutch shorties and compensate the growth. But kids usually grow taller than their parents...

@@dutchman7623 I God this story from a respected newspaper so i assume it is correct

What you are referring to is sexual selection in the human species and I don't think there is a difference between Dutch sexual selection and sexual selection between people of other nationalities or if you want cultures. That would mean Dutch people behave like a different kind of species and that would be big news in the scientific world and I haven't seen any news of that kind in the past decades, so that seems to be 100% speculation.

@@barthvos845 Google AD artikel: dit is waarom Nederlanders zo lang zijn.

Then the chinese and other bikeridingcountrys would also be tall but they aren’t.

@@2cvburton Chinese people from the Netherlands are taller than those in China.

@@dutchman7623 Dutch people from China are less tall than in Holland

@@henkoosterink8744 But taller than their family in China. And many have lactose intolerance, so consume none or few diary products.

@@dutchman7623 Diary products are not that healthy.

I drink 1 liters or sometimes even 1.5l of milk a day that adds up to 7 liters a week times 28 liters of milk a month so again I have consumed 336 liters of milk in 2021 and 2020 and now 2023 I shall to it again inshallah to aid my bone growth inshallah.

Average height in South Africa is like 5’4 is

@@Luca-xv3oy He's talking about a complete different country

They're tall but they're also very slim and that makes to look even taller.

The Dinka’s of South Sudan are taller.

Thats a tribe not an nation.

171cm is short, even for native Dutch girls?

You're still taller than me and the same height as my girlfriend. I meet shorter people every day and I'm 168cm.

@@majstter7420 Where are you form?

Slovakia

@@majstter7420 As a 168cm guy, it must be very, very ,very short among younger Slovakians, right?

1. abject nonsense: professional athletes are outliers, no matter their ethnicity. A nation with lower average length but higher variation will have taller athletes than a taller nation with less variation. 2. again, abject nonsense: they might be Dutch citizens but aren't part of the Dutch people. Ethnicity =/= nationality and the Dutch also happen to be an ethnic group - after whom a country was named hence the name is also referring to citizenship. The opposite can also be true, someone of full Dutch ancestry doesn't have to be a Dutch citizen. There are full blooded Dutch people who hold only Australian or Canadian citizenship so they are only Dutch in one sense of the word. The reason that Serbia has the tallest sports team is because a population subgroup in the wider region, the natives of the Dinaric Alps, are very tall. That doesn't mean that their population average is also the highest. The populations living in the lowland areas are much shorter. Same with the Chinese and their IQ: Chinese have one of the highest average IQs in the world but they have relatively few outliers. Spaniards might have a 10 point IQ disadvantage over them but produce far more outliers (retards and geniuses). Your logic's stupidity can be illustrated by deducting that the Chinese cannot have higher average IQs because, despite massive differences in population size, they won far fewer Nobel prizes than Spaniards (which by the way is true - and the difference is colossal even without taking into account population size). You cannot extrapolate the outliers of a group to an average!

Why pilots license?

Yep, exactly.

23.1 of the females in the Netherlands are below 165 and 23.9 % is taller than 175. The other 53 % is in between 165 and 174.

Why people cares about height at all?

Woman moment

Ya that's indeed very short Very

Yeah very short we need 10 feet tall ppl

they meant the average dutch person is 175,6 cm, which would be because Dutch Men averaging 183 cm and Dutch women being 168,2 cm which would put the average Dutch person (regardless of gender) in the 175,6 mark.

175 is even short for younger Dutch girls.

I am 1.89 m I hope to grow to god willingly I already consume milk every day