Height Difference Between Men and Women

What is the height difference between men and women?

On average, men are taller than women, yes everyone knows that. But do you know exactly how much?

The difference is five inches. Yes, on average, men are roughly five inches taller than women. However, an individual male can be much taller than an individual female or vice versa.

By the way, men in the US have an average height of 5’9.5” and women 5’4”. You may be wondering why this difference is more than five inches. There are two reasons for that.

One, that tall people have slightly more height difference than five inches, like very short people have slightly less difference than five inches.

And the other, well the thing is that, females in the US or any other part of the world live longer than males, and as you may already know that people lose height as they get older, and that’s where the difference kicks in.

That’s why females on average comes out a bit shorter than they should, because they are on average more senior than men.

By the way men, on average have about six and a half inches of reach advantage over women and weighs about 15% more.

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