Dutch’s Growth Spurt

With Western features, it is hard to recognize the Dutch from the rest of the world. Well, they do have a distinctive feature: they are tall! Height is a subjective topic but people from The Netherlands are known for being blessed with tall statures, just like the guys in these pictures.

The typical Dutchman stands at 182.5cm, whereas a Dutch woman is 168.7cm tall. Contrastingly, Americans are slightly smaller, at 177.1cm for men and 163.5cm for women. Surprisingly, a Royal Society of London study, which looked into Dutch military records from the mid-1800s, revealed that they were some of the shortest people on the continent.