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Published in final edited form as: J Econ Asymmetries. 2011 Dec;8(2):1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.jeca.2011.02.002

Table 1.

Estimated average final heights (cm) of men who reached maturity between 1750 and 2000 in six European populations, by quarter-centuries

Date of
Maturity
by
Century
and
Quarter
Denmark France Great
Britain
Hungary Norway Sweden
1 18-III - - 165.5 167.4 165.6 168.1
2 18-IV 165.7 163.0 168.6 166.6 165.5 166.7
3 19-I 166.2 163.7 167.9 163.1 166.6 166.7
4 19-II 166.7 164.3 171.2 163.5 167.4 167.3
5 19-III 165.3 164.7 167.2 162.3 168.7 168.0
6 19-IV 167.8 165.4 168.0 163.8 169.6 169.5
7 20-I 169.3 166.3 168.2 165.4 171.0 171.9
8 20-II 171.5 168.0 170.0 168.4 173.8 173.9
9 20-III 175.5 171.2 175.0 170.7 177.6 177.2
10 20-IV 183.2 174.7 176.6 - 179.5 179.2

Source: Floud et al. 2011. © Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission.

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