Polish person's average height?

Interesting topic, as i'm not a big fan of looking at blokes closely i can't really comment on them, however women, i think that they are a little below the average height. I don't see many tall Polish women at all. In fact so much so i can't remember the last polish girl i met over 5,5.

I was just curiose, not only becuase of my polish decent, but also in trying to figure out how a persons diet influencese height. To my conclusion is that the northern countries that eat more meat and fat have a greater heigth then does of the southern european countries whose diets have greater amounts of carbohydrates.

ok i see that i have to write something. ;p
i am polish and i am 158 cm. Thats truth, the most of polish girls r short.
Boys too. they r 172-180.

` Izabela.

i'm 166 cm, and my sister is about 170. you ARE short tho lol. but it's true about guys, they're not very tall.

Hi all,

I am 168 cm and I consider myself average in Poland. Most of my girlfriends are 170 - 178 cm tall. As for guys, that depends. Some of them are a little above 170 cm, but some are really tall (up to 196 cm tall - not that many, though).

I'm 180 cm and most of my friends are taller than me.

IMO females are about 170 - 175 cm

I don't think so. 170 cm is very tall for Polish women.

I see lots 175 or more...maybe its just where and when.

Maybe that's truth. I would say that an average women height in Poznan is that of JustysiaS.

I wrote,average height of women in Poland is 165-166 cm with 25% being over 170 cm.
Average height of men is about 181-182 cm.

I haven't been loking on stats, maybe it is their shoes :)

My two cents:

There are many women over 170cm, some over 180cm. They stand out, but are not a big percentage of the whole.

The average for women would be under 170cm simply because all the older, shorter women would bring the average down.

Men seem to fall into two groups: Those who are over 187cm, a small but noticable group, and those who are around 175 - 180cm

Twenty-year-olds are definitely taller than the same age group twenty years ago.

25% over 170 cm,1% over 180 cm.These are the statistics in my opinion.(from personal observation and estimation).
For Belarus it is 15% over 170 cm and for Ukraine 20% over 170 cm.For Russia 15% over 170 cm.Polish girls are definetely taller than russian girls but shorter than czech and slovak girls and in the same height with german girls.

I wouldn't argue much with this. It seems a decent estimation.

I am sure about czech,slovak,ukrainian,belarus and russian girls because I have counted them.For polish girls I rely more on observation and deductive thinking by other close nationalities measurements.
Really the anthropometric characteristics of girls in Lvov are almost similar to girls in Krakow.(slightly different to girls in Poznan though).



Yes,because the latter were impoverished during the '80's when they grew in puberty.Contrary to that today's Czechs have the same height as their ancestors which means they were not impoverished during the '80s.
It is surprising that Eastern German height has fallen in recent years which means that the living standards in Eastern Germany have fallen in relation to communist times!(although the western Germans were always taller than the Eastern Germans,the difference has now increased).