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.