I bring down the average in the Netherlands:-) I am a 160 cm tall Dutch woman. Something that is funny but also very difficult in a world with giants. I can't easily reach anything in shops, shopping for clothes is a disaster and sitting somewhere where I can put my feet on the ground is no longer possible. But the plus side is that everything that is old in the Netherlands is suitable for me again :-) Old houses, for example, are ideal for me. The steep stairs are no problem with shoe size 36. I don't have to bend over to go under a old door frame :-)
I'm a 5'1/158cm Dutchie, and my height is one of my greatest insecurities. My father is average and my mother below average, and I got the short end of the stick (pun intended). They often say, "you're average for the rest of the world", but I don't live in another country, I live in the Netherlands.
Dutchie here. Bit taller than average at 190cm. Played darts and for a while I was the shortest player in the team. All others were at least 195 cm for a couple of seasons. Family is reasonably tall too, but the males in my mothers family were the largest by far. My grandfather from that side of the family was somewhere around 200cm and large, at least 125 kg, but probably closer to 150 kg; without looking overly fat; he actually was nicknamed "de reus" which means the giant. It was a thing in those days, Netherlands wasn't as rich back then in the twenties and thirties, so the food wasn't as good back then. My uncle was a bit shorter around 195cm, also a big man. He was a butcher with hands the size of hams. Because I am a bit smaller I always joke that evolution is going backwards in my family. There are also regional differences. People in the north tend to be a bit taller on average than people from say Brabant and Limburg.
I'm pretty small for a dutch woman (1.65) but when I went to Portugal I felt so tall! I felt like I was almost stepping on other people cause they were so small!
I am German, have a few Dutch friends and Dutch colleagues, in average they are between 190cm and 200cm. With my 180cm I am always the smallest in the group. When I moved here 20 years ago, my Apartment had doors that a 2 meter person can easily pass. I felt a bit the apartment doors are oversized. But architects consider already the taller dutch people, so doors in new buildings cope with their hight.
Sheesh don't exaggerate, the average between Germany and the Netherlands is just a few cm. Kind regards a 1.79m Dutch guy who's slightly below average here
I used to be a tall Dutch man with 187 cm (60 years old) but nowadays I’m average against the younger generation. They seem to grow taller every generation.
I was one of the tallest of my family and at school, but new generations are taller. My youngest son did not want to be taller than me (1.90m) but ended up 1.95m. He's happy with that now. Averaging between 1.90 and 1.95 feels like the perfect length here.
Growing up in the Netherlands it feels normal to be taller and taller. I always been very happy to be average with 180cm. It's not very tall in Dutch standards but a gaint for asian average but still very average tall for most of the world. What is uncommon is my short legs and very long upper spine.
I’m a dutch 49 years old man and i’m 188cm. When I was young I was skinny and let’s say more upper average group, now when I go grocery shopping I see a lot of late teens and early twenties that tower over me and have a muscular well formed body and can be really intimidating.
I'm a 197cm Dutch guy. Years ago I went to Hong Kong and entered a 300m+ sky scraper: de ceiling of every floor was 190 cm so I had to bend over constantly... When I entered the elevator, everybody was staring at me, and one guy couldn't help himself out of utter surprise saying I was "a f--ing giant". I know he didn't disrespected me (as Chinese people are very respectful), but I found it funny he just was so honest. We had a good laugh at it.
I'm a Dutch woman. I'm 5'8 (1.70), normal by Dutch standards. I have travelled a lot and I always feel very self conscious in every other country around the globe. Once I was travelling alone in China and waiting to board a aircraft, I was the tallest in line. Felt so weird. 😮 Especially because I"m somewhat overweight. It made me feel so huge. 😢😂
I'm 183cm and feel normal in the Netherlands, still there are many people that tower over me. My uncle is 2.18m and that's very tall even for the Netherlands. When i go to different countries i always get people telling me i'm tall but i am not at all actually.
With 175cm I’m short as a Dutchman but not everyone is 2m. A lot of people are between 165-190cm It’s more that the younger generation is taller than the older generation
In 2007 I have been to Taiwan and South Korea on a study-trip. 25 students, 2 professors 11 were taller than me (I'm 1m90) So it was not hard to find eachother in the subway as the girls didn't have black hair and the boys were taller than the rest of the people. Riding the bus was quite a challenge as you could not stand up straight in the middle path and in Taiwan the offices in some buildings were quite tricky as you would hit the sprinklers on the ceiling. I think this Korean guy should also have visited the north of the Netherlands (Groningen) as here I do not feel tall at all, but when I visit family in the south I'm significantly taller than the rest.
My best male friend is 2.14m (7ft) and he is an attraction abroad 😂 He gets so many stares and comments everywhere we go, especially in the States and Japan. In Japan I became the designated photographer, even being a 1.80m (5’9) woman.
Single Dutch women prefer men of 1.85 m. That became clear at dating sites. And that’s a pity, because I am only 1.80 m…. but persistence payed off and now I am happy with my 1.62m lady 😊
The average height in the Netherlands is about 185 cm, but elderly Dutch people tend to be around 175 cm, or smaller to 160 cm or even smaller. depending on their age and of course their DNA. A good healthcare-system and availability of healthy food, contributed to the increase in length. It also "helped" that Western-European women (not all!) are attracted to slightly taller men.
Being Dutch and being of average height, I've noticed that the older a house is, the lower everything is. And that when you buy a kitchen or a toilet in the Netherlands, the sales person will actually look at the height of you (or the both of you if you're a couple) and recommend a certain height for your toilet to be mounted at, or how high to make your counter top. Buying houses, I remember a particular occasion where the realtor explicitly stated: "Actually, the toilet has been recently renovated (year), but the reason there's a standing toilet in stead of a hanging one, is because the owner of this house is really tall, and a wall mounted toilet would have meant less legroom. (Because toilets in the Netherlands are typically claustrophobia inducing cupboard spaces.) So to make a long story short, we've just adopted it. For that matter, I also know beds of 220 cm are not a rarity.
I used to be 187 cm but I'm 185 cm now, roughly the average height as most males. Now and then i see people taller than 2 meters though. In my entire family including extended family members everyone is taller than 180 cm. I do have 1 male friend that's only 170 cm. He's very short in my eyes. For a guy.
I’m a 1,65m woman and short compared to the average. I married into a family of taller than average. I barely reached the shoulder height of my husband. Yet the height difference was never an issue.
I'm a (Middle aged) 191cm. That is clearly taller than average for that generation which was probably 182cm or so, but nothing more than just "tall", a handful people in my class alone that were in the same category. Only special consequence that I can remember is that in kitchens I could comfortably put tins on top of the cupboards or the highest shelf that drove my family and flat mates nuts sometimes, having to fetch a ladder/stepup to get to the coffee tin. I've been in an Irish B&B that was in an older property, with 180cm doors. My grandparents house from 1911 or so had higher doors.
I know what he feels like; if I go shopping in Buchana Street, I tower over folk and I'm only 195. And seeing what Korea is like, I'm not jumping to go there, even though I'd love to see the country.
173 and Dutch male, 5’8 I think. Considered VERY short here, it is the first physical attribute people remark on. Life is pretty normal, don’t feel different at all really. Infrastructure is fine for my height. I feel that ppl are much less height obsessed here than in Anglo countries honestly.
When we went on vacation in Italy in the 70's, my father had size 46, when we went to a market he wanted some slippers but they only had up to size 42 or so, all other market people came to see and marvel at this huge feet! Nowadays we are still tall compared to Italians but not by a lot. They also grew over the past decades!
I'm quite small for a Dutch woman (159 cm). it can be frustrating, because the average height is quite tall, that a lot of basic necessities are catered for a certain height. Reaching top shelves in stores is difficult, the toilets are always too high, at work I need the office chair at it's lowest which is then just about the right height for me, and the thing I hate the most: pants are always too long (they barely carry shorter sizes, so online is the place to go) and sleeves are too long. but people call me cute a lot because I'm small according to them, so there's that🙃
1,77 Dutch male here (mom is 1,54 and dad 1,83, so my length turned out pretty ok) I'm always on the shorter end of whatever group of people I'm hanging out with. I visited Toronto a few years back, which has quite a few Asians from various countries walking their streets at any given time and I felt like a giant 😅
I am sort of a Jack Russell in the Netherlands. I feel like I'm as tall as my Dutch friends (1.75 m) but when I look at photos, they are taller than me (1.80, till 1.95 m?) However, when I visit my relatives in the Moluccans and Indonesia, and looking back at the photos I took... it looks like I am the giant. Whenever Dutch relatiives join me, they often feel like superstars. People stare and/or people want to have pictures taken with them. But in the Netherlands they wouldn't be noticed. 😅
I am 169cm, my mother being fully Dutch is just a tiny 165cm, my dad being asian, I am pretty small for the average Dutch standard, I lived in Italy for 8 years and i felt really tall there, then I came back to Holland again and only then did i realise how tall people are here. I am so used to it and to looking up. My cousin is 212cm , we have all heights in our family. Thought nothing is too heigh here for me, as in toilets or sinks, I am so used to it , I never thought about it until this video, then I remembered how in Italy the sinks were a lot lower too, which felt uncomfortable to me. You just get used to that what you grow up with, I guess
I am a dutch woman and i am 1.86m. My twinbrother is 1.95m. My 2 older brothers are 1.94m. My sister is only 1.77m, but her son is 2.02 m. My 2 daughters are also short: 1.72m, but they also have indonesian dna.
Im 2m from Denmark living in Netherlands. Surprisingly I'm experiencing a lot of issues being tall here. My height is primarily in my legs, and having very long legs and big feets makes it so difficult buying pants, shoes, sitting in public transport and finding bikes. Yet I've meet people similar height to me,. not having the same issues. (Also I'm not skinny like a lot of Dutch people. I'm quite thick build by nature so very wide shoulders and hips, long feets ect.) Maybe I'm just looking the wrong places.
I am Dutch and 1.98 m tall. In Wales the ceilings of pubs were too low for me to stand up, and I didn't fit in the beds of B&B's. When I was in Jaipur India, I was used to be looked at as a giant, but at a busy street crossing where I waited for a friend, there was this Indian man across the street who was as tall as I was, and we looked each other in the eyes for several minutes;
I’m 15 years old and 191 cm, witch for my age is definitely above average. But in public I still feel like a kid regardless of my height, cus there are still many adults taller than me.
When I was young I had a classmate off 15 years who was 2,15cm ….. he broke his own hip trying to do a karate kick but his other leg swept and he fell and broke his own hip.😂
I am Dutch and 2,14m tall, well above average. I have never known differently (2 brother and 2 sisters all are tall + my dad). I am not considering moving or visiting Asia any time soon, my height is going to be a massive obstacle. As an example, I joined a rowing team (height was a big +) and a teammate went and visited Indonesia, he was 1,93m. He was seen as an... circus attraction to the point that it wasn't funny anymore. The stories he told me were fitting with what I already knew. In the Netherlands my height is a small inconvenience that I can work around, in other places in the world it is an abnormality. So if I visited finding a bed, toilet, shower, clothes, space on public transport, room when visiting temples etc. everything would be a challenge and at this point I just don't want to deal with that.
I am a 193 tall 50y/o (my dad 183) and used to feel tall. The next generations however, makes me feel average. our 15y/o daughter is 180 at the moment and our 13y/o son is 175.....his feet only just started to accelerate in size......so he'll be a long lad I am afraid of.
I'm a guy in the Netherlands and 190cm. At school in my class i was like 3rd largest, so large yes ok, extreme no. 20 years later there are a lot more of my height, more and more normal. One of the good things is in super crowded events, say a band playing, when I stretch I can sorta tower over others, in the Netherlands. In Italy or Greece, even more, they are small to me. Asians, are they children, kindergarten? Ehm, maybe they are adults. Downside is that busses assume we are Italy size, which is way to small. Caves? Avoid at all cost, cause probably its only meant for people like 160. Old houses, bang against my head
I'am a 6ft 10" (204cm) dutchman and i lived in the uk for a short time (1993) and i feld like a giant there. I wanted to get my drivinglicence there and asked for a big car because of my hight. They didn't believe me and send a instructor with smal size car, when i got in my knees touchted the steering wheel, so they had to send än other car, only for the fact that they didn't believe that i was thet tall. So being taĺl in the uk at that time wasn't easy. I don't know what it is now, buti still think that the british people als on the short side.
Our Dutch men are the tallest in the world and I believe Latvian women are the tallest women in the world. I'm a 1.76cm Dutch woman, I think just a little bit over the average.
At 6’2’’ I’m tall for a man of my generation, and about 2’’ above average. But looking at younger people, I feel as if I’ve shrunk When visiting Southern Europe or the UK or US, I suddenly feel very tall again 😅 Also when going south or across the pond, I find that on average worktops and sinks are up to 4’’ sometimes 5’’ lower than at home And there’s way less legroom onnpublic transport etc
I’m 175,5 so pretty average for a local woman. I’m still a little bit surprised when men are a full head taller than me despite having tall family members, because I used to be taller than everyone my age until I was 14 and the boys started catching up…
I’m a 1,73m woman living in the netherlands and compared to my friends I actually feel on the tad short side. My dad’s 1,97m and my mom funnily enough is really short by dutch standards since she’s 1,56m so my parents have a huge height difference of 41 cm.
1,71 cm Dutch woman, I'm exactly average height for women here... My sister and one of my brothers are about 1,80/1,85 I think and my twin brother is approaching the 2 meter mark. Dad is around 1,85 as well and mom was about 1,58 😅.
I'm 1,97 myself. That's quite normal here (it's because of the cheese and the kale :) Love the clip. He's a giant in Korea but just one of the guys here.
This so weird. Lived in the NL my whole life. I'm male and 169cm tall I never seen myself as exceptional short. Or ever had the idea that everybody around me is taller than me.
I used to 1m90 but these days at my age I am shrinking. When I was working and we had standing receptions (which was often) I must admit I felt dominated as my colleagues were not only tall but big as well. Dutch houses have higher ceilings; those in my own home are 2m75. Beds are longer as well; 2m10.
There's about a 10cm average difference between the countries, almost the same as between North and South korea. One is due to genetics the other is due to nutrition
Statistics (according to the CBS, Central Bureau of Statistics) show that the average height of men born in 1930 was 175,6 cm. The average height of men born in 1980 was 183,9 cm. So in 50 years a difference of 8,3 cm. Women in 1930 165,4 cm and in 1980 170,7 cm. A difference of 5,3 cm. Statistics show also that the generation born after 1980 is a bit smaller, men just a bit and women 1 cm. ☺
I wonder if the shorter average in the last decades has to do with the increase of the Moroccan and Turkish community. They are Dutch but with a different heritage. I feel like people of Dutch descent have kept growing.
Most people do not want to be 2m tall, it's a bit to tall for comfortable car use and stuff. There is no standard want here like 6ft, but I'd geuss most men would want to be somewhere in the 180 to 190 range
1.88 about average in the Netherlands. I live in Amsterdam lots of expats so I feel tall sometimes. But back where I was born Groningen, not so much or even small. Still I'm fine with my height. In thailand I was huge (also bring your own condoms) The normal thai condoms don't fit. _I mean this!_
