A recent study showed that men and women of the Netherlands Latvia are globally longer, while some countries in North Africa and the Middle East saw a decline in the average length over the past decades
 participated in the preparation of research by a team of 800 people, with the cooperation of the World Health Organization and has to use data from a variety of sources.

The scientists used this data to gather information related to the length of the population 18 years of age in 1914 and comparing the length of the population 18 years of age in 2014.

The study also revealed that Netherlands men are the longest in the world with an average length of 182.5 cm and women Allatviac are the longest average length of 170 centimeters. It also shows that men of East Timor were the shortest in the world in 2014 with an average length of 160 cm and women Guatemala Be the shortest in the same year with an average length of 149 centimeters.

The difference in height between the countries with the longest and shortest people in 2014, about 23 centimeters for men, up 4 centimeters in comparison with 1914. remained length difference between women with little change and amounted to about 20 centimeters