Are the Dutch Really that Tall? Let's Find Out

Introducing the new series "Dutch MythBusters", where each episode we bust myths about Dutch people and Dutch culture. This week, it's time to debunk the infamous myth that all Dutch people are tall. Do you think it's true? Check out what students Martijn and Daantje have to say about this!
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[@henkoosterink8744]

We Dutch smoke weed and become high, that is the trick.

[@Linda-hs1lk]

lol

[@mariadebake5483]

O how funny ha ha ha....

[@henkoosterink8744]

@@mariadebake5483 Droogkloot.

[@apigthatflies]

Same for Colorado, USA but I'm still average height at 175cm...

[@DG-hb8ob]

Dutch people are super tall! I was actually shocked how tall they were. I'm from the UK originally, but I lived and worked in Rotterdam for two years. I'm 184cm (6'0.5) which is pretty tall in most countries, but when I lived in The Netherlands, I was plain average, sometimes I even felt small. Nation of giants! - I do miss The Netherlands, very friendly people.

[@kawazaki23]

I am Somalia men born In the Netherlands I lived in England and Netherlands both countries,,,however its complete contrast on how people are so much smaller in London then in Rotterdam were I currently live ,,,,,I am 189cm (6'2.5) with out shoes which is barefoot imagine that I have Beene dwarfed many times I sometimes would measure and could't believe that I felt small at 1,89m tall but I am still growing anyways has young boy,,,inshallah.

[@Xaviallin1]

@@kawazaki23I’ve seen you on Quora..

[@albert_zweistein7196]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@DG-hb8ob]

@@VanquisherOfThots If you can read I said I was 'plain average', and 'sometimes' I felt small..

[@methos4866]

I'm 184cm and Dutch and i've had many times where i felt small. I was almost that tall at 10 years old. I was the tallest kid in class. Then when i was 13 i began to lose my advantage and i got stuck at 184cm 😢

[@hkleider]

I'm 188 cm/6'2, lived in the Netherlands for 3 years and felt tall, people rarely towered over me. All the Dutch people here talking about feeling average at 190-195 or regularly seeing 6'0+ women are either larping hard or very mistaken about their heights.

[@slytheravenx2716]

I'm curious about your comment, I'm about the same height as you and I've seen so many people lie or don't even know their own heigth and label themselves as taller, because I find hard to believe that someone can feel "short" at 190cm let alone 195 in a country that is 182.9 cm on average, that's at least 3 inches of difference, is like feeling short at 6 ft in the USA while the average being 5'9, like almost everyone in the USA wishes to be 6ft.

[@hkleider]

@@slytheravenx2716it's worse than that: 5'9/175 cm is average for the entire male population in the US, it's 5'10/178 for young men only (both based on measured data), since people lose some height as they age. Likewise it's 181.2 for all men in the Netherlands, 182.9 for young men (self-reported). So the difference between the US and Netherlands is about 2 inches/5 cm if not slightly less, meaning 195 in the Netherlands is equivalent to 190 in the US and so on. That's how ridiculous such accounts are, the Dutch are tall but they're not THAT tall compared to most European countries.

[@Alex-ln9on]

I think norway is taller... I live in Norway. Im 192cm which is I believe 6'3.5'' . And a lot of people are similar height I don't feel tall at all. At my job there are not many employees but are all tall some taller then me.

[@Exe11ent_24]

I'm 193cm/6'4 and stayed in the Netherlands for 3 months, and although I'm lowkey above average there, there were still a lot of Dutch that were taller than me. I'd walk on the streets and there would be a lot of men who were 200cm+ and would tower over me.

[@alindaschaap]

Me as a Dutch woman of only 1,6 meters... I'm considered tiny here, but felt quite average when I was in India, Thailand, South Korea etc.

[@regntonne]

awwww

[@Sathish_12]

1.55-1.65m is considered perfect height for women in india

[@bodigames]

??? 1.67 cm is woman average. Its the men that are so tall. Men have an average of 184 cm In Thailand the young generation are also tall. I went to Thailand in 2019 and all young men were just under my height. Oh I’m 184.5 cm….

[@lilgun2611]

@@Momoa786 i'm from thailand and i'm 181 cm lol

[@lilgun2611]

@@Momoa786 i'm 14 years old, so maybe i can grow up to +190 cm

[@Widdekuu91]

I'm a 181 cm Dutch woman and I went to Paris, a few years back. They have The Catacombs, where I scraped my head across the (wet and gritty) ceiling, when we were +/- 30 meters down. For anyone that doesn't know, they have loads of skulls there and bones, it's a mass-grave basically, but decorative. As soon as we were on a normal level (the level of the living) again, we had to walk through a part with dried-up (mummified) monks. Which was quite creepy. We walked past and I wanted to be quick (I wanted to go outside, I'd seen enough) so I walked fast and something scraped across the top of my head. As I looked around to see what I'd hit (and ofcourse, to apologize to the tourguide) I saw a very old lamp, that had hung quite low and it was made of human (ancient) bones. The finger-bones were hanging downwards and one of them had scraped across my head.

[@agnesecloset]

omg it must’ve been terrible!!!

[@simplyyellow6240]

You should cut your leg to the knee to become normal woman instead of giant.

[@Widdekuu91]

@@simplyyellow6240 "Normal woman" would be an exaggeration, but it is a good idea.

[@stefankaiser3354]

Happy Halloween! 😂

[@TheoBinnendijk]

The door hight had to be years ago 2,00 or 2,10 m; later 2,20 m and now 2,40 m. You are not allowed to build homes in the Netherlands with doors under 2,40 m.

[@bodigames]

Beste Theo. Huizen die in 2010 zijn gebouwd hebben nog steeds een hoogte van 2 meter. Nieuwbouwhuizen uit 2020 hebben een hoogte van 2 meter 10. Je hoeft mij niets wijs te maken ik woon namelijk in een nieuwbouwhuis uit 2020.

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

This is nonsense.

[@TheoBinnendijk]

@@bodigames Ik ben gepensioneerd architect, ik ben in 2010 gestopt. Het bouwbesluit was toen al gewijzigd en de deuren moesten 2,40 meter hoog zijn. Dat gold toen ook voor de vrije hoogte boven de trap. Verdiepingen moesten een vrije hoogte hebben van 2,60 meter. De laatste woningen die ik hen gerealiseerd voldoen aan deze nieuwe normen. Anders had ik geen vergunningen gekregen. Als er in 2020 nog woningen zijn gebouwd met deuren van 2,1- meter, dan hebben ambtenaren zitten slapen, of er is van de vergunning afgeweken.

[@ruminantdastellar7740]

Great part of the Doors here (Mexico) are around 7'5. It's crazy seems Mexico is a quite wild and random place, as you can easily see someone of 7'0 tall, you can also easily see someone being only 5'0.

[@mMayonaise]

​@@ruminantdastellar7740that's not true at all

[@markovermeer1394]

For Dutch 19-year olds, man are average 183 (6ft) and women 170 (5'7"). However... this includes recent "import", which is much shorter. 2% of the dutch boys are over 198 (6'6"), 2% of the dutch girls is over 183 (6ft). About 13% of the young boys are as tall or taller than Martijn in this video.

[@JP-bz1zz]

Where did you get those numbers from? I'm just curious

[@markovermeer1394]

@@JP-bz1zz Detailed CBS figures.

[@JP-bz1zz]

@@markovermeer1394 Thanks

[@ventanasdelalma7623]

In dating apps far more than 2% of Dutch girls are 183cm +, and dating apps are heavily dominated by women with not foreign backgound (aka Ethnic Dutch women)

[@nyb2.027]

@@ventanasdelalma7623 Dating apps are not a reliable source, though. You should know how often heights are exaggerated on those apps!

[@dargmar]

Wow, she is 167cm and considered a small woman. I am a 172.5cm Asian woman. I was one of the tallest in the women's high school in my country. I worked with a Dutch family in the USA, and they are all tall, like 6.5 ft (198cm) or taller.

[@alansafier1568]

I am a 169cm American male. I think you guys are ALL tall!

[@shinyam75]

167cm is considered tall in most countries for a woman.

[@gwaptiva]

And yet, the KLM (the french airline, not the Klub voor Lange Mensen) reduces leg room year on year...

[@jameshogan6142]

I remember Rudd Cullit playing football. I only saw him on TV and guessed his height at 5' 11" or so. I was surprised to learn he was 6' 4".

[@daddyleon]

0:08 yes, obviously on average...what else? Median or mode perhaps, but don't point to individual exceptions.

[@wimschoenmakers5463]

I am 189 cm ( 6,2 ft ) and consider myself average tall as a Dutchman. Lots of people around here are 6.4 ft of even bigger. It has nothing to do with the kind of food, but it's all because of natural selection of the Dutch over de centuries.

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

That is nonsense because all people get children, not just the tall ones, so it is not natural selection. That leaves the fact that Dutch drink more milk and consume more milk products then others. Similar to the Masai people of Kenia, they live on mostly cow milk and are way taller then others. Milk of course has a lot of growth hormone because it is ment for baby cows. So that makes sense. Not this "natural selection" thing. On average taller people live shorter lives and have more ailments, like back problems. Probably a good idea to go vegan. Meat and milk are harmful to the body and the environment whatever the respective lobyists are trying to sell you.

[@wimschoenmakers5463]

@@DutchmanAmsterdam According to the experts it all has to do with the fact that tall Dutch choose also a tall partner, so their children are also giants. Doctors are telling us that food is no issue because we eat the same food as for example the polish of Britisch people, and they are smaller.

[@kawazaki23]

@@DutchmanAmsterdam nope not true and this is the key reason why dutch people are becoming shorter blame y'all selfs

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

@@kawazaki23 Dutch people aren't becoming shorter, what are you talking about?

[@DutchmanAmsterdam]

@@wimschoenmakers5463 What doctors and experts are telling you those things? Dutch consume way more milk products then Polish, or probably any other people. Again this natural selection thing; if tall people prefer tall people to get children with, that happens everywhere, so it can't be the reason. I would think Swedes and Norwegians are the tallest, and blondest, actually btw.

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

The guy is actually way above average, even to Dutch standards. The male average in the Netherlands is 182.4cm right now, and women are 167.5cm. She is actually only 5mm under the Dutch average!

[@rinzehuitema9821]

I live in the north of the Netherlands and being 190 cm is just average

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

@@rinzehuitema9821 Because you subjectively feel that way, or did you actually look at the statistics? Statements turn bold quickly without backing them up with actual facts.

[@tzeyeenliew1468]

20%of the population in NL is not ethnically dutch, and we tend to be on the shorter side....

[@iemand2612]

@@vincenzodigrande2070 people in the country side are generally taller than in the city, because of better air quality and there are less people who are ethnically dutch. My dad is 195 cm and was considered very tall in The Hague, but when we moved to this small village in the North he was very average.

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

@@iemand2612 I'm sorry, but it takes some serious air pollution before it robs people being able to grow tall sufficiently to not allow them to. Similarly does it not magically make people taller, even when the cleanest air is provided, if their genes and hormones are not designated to do so. It really is hormones and genes that are the window, within the opportunity by food, water, air etc. only play a minor role to how tall a person will grow. Or in other words, it requires serious starvation, or massive oxygen deprivation to not allow someone to grow as tall as their genes and hormones would designate them to. It is just how it works. And yes, you can ingest hormonal material that can highly influence this. Like when you eat chicken meat you will ingest huge amounts of oestrogen, and many men will hereby suffer from poor beard growth, delayed puberty, less penile length and grow breasts, and no, I didn't make this up, this is recent research that showed this. And the dairy, Dutch dairy comes from farms that constantly keeps the mother cows pregnant, which is totally different from animals in most other cultures like in India. Dutch dairy contains a LOT more hormones due to that. And the Dutch are the greatest consumers of cheese in the world, with a whopping 17 kilograms of cheese per year on average. Do you have any idea how many litres of fluid milk this equates to? Almost 200 of litres of milk, sometimes even more, depending on how old the cheese is .... So clean air... lol.... gimme a break....

[@bobbyerico9962]

I’m from the Guppi region of the Ottoman Empire. The average male here is 12’69 (7 billion gigameters) wide but only 1” (2.54 cm) tall.

[@fragjo4988]

175.26 is 5'9

[@coolcool7987]

Im 6 feet 5 or 196cm. Would i be short in the Netherlands

[@dinfast]

No, tall. Tho I doubt this was a serious question

[@SapereAude1789]

I am Dutch and nearly 6 ft 5 (195 cm) but I am almost never the tallest guy in a group larger than 10 people.

[@hkleider]

195 cm would make you taller than 98% of the male Dutch population and is the equivalent of 190 cm/6'3 in the US. Men noticeably taller than you are less than 1%. Sure dude.

[@eatinsomtin9984]

Why cap?

[@anterionan4731]

sorry to break it you bud but you're not 6'5

[@jackmiddleton2080]

@@hkleider This could be explained partly if he lives outside of a major city. Due to immigrants all going to the cities. Also people tend to hang around people similar to them.

[@ImCornPop]

6'3 and a half. Unfortunately, I never learned the metric system.

[@sabinesteil4690]

My son, 26 year old, is 1,87m and is rather average. I am 1,63m and at events I feel like a small child in the crowd.

[@alucardrick7016]

Are you from Northern or Southern part in the Netherlands.

[@kawazaki23]

since when is 1.87 average

[@syncaudio2758]

I’m a 1.68 asian and traveling through the Netherlands, I feel like a midget here lmaoo.

[@justadreamerforgood69]

Lol now 187cm is average 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@connectionlost7216]

I'm 183 cm tall and I haven't ever felt short in Netherlands. Most people are only a few inches taller than me which is not noticeable at all. Very occasionally I encounter 195 cm+ giants that tower over me but still people blow Netherlands height way out of proportion. The comments would have you believe that anything under 190 cm is midget level height but that's not true at all.

[@TheEvertw]

When I lived in Scotland, I never had trouble managing crowds, and my friends never had trouble finding me. I always had a clear view over their heads. And I am below average for Dutch standards, only 1.78m tall.

[@sf6695]

1.78m girl is below average in netherland? ain't no way

[@ShinIsTheGoat]

@@sf6695 Yeah, not too much but the netherlands avg is 182-183 cm

[@frederickpeebles8142]

Doubt. I'm 6'1 and the average guy here is 5'11.

[@pdfbanana]

178 is average male height here in the US. i would've thought it was about the same for scottish people

[@ege6300]

@@frederickpeebles8142 you live in netherlands?

[@cyberprimate]

In France where I live the average height for women is 1m65 (young women is 1m68 ), 1m76 for men (young men is 1m78). So in France Daantje would be in the average height, not short. In 1900 Dutch and French were the same average height. Dutch grew more because of their very high consumption of milk, mostly. I doubt this trend will continue. For many reasons.

[@pdfbanana]

it was not because of milk, though there is a correlation. milk doesn't make people grow taller. better nutrition does though, and dairy is calorie dense. dutch nutrition improved massively from 1800 to the mid 1900s, hence the growth

[@cyberprimate]

French and Dutch were the same height in 1900. Considering that nutrition improved all over Western Europe and Dutch have become way taller than other Western Europeans, how do you explain the difference today?

[@pdfbanana]

@@cyberprimate genetics

[@cyberprimate]

@@pdfbanana Yes possibly.

[@classicallpvault8251]

No, they did not. The Dutch outgrew the French for a different reason: the much later industrialisation of the Netherlands meant that child mortality rates remained higher for much longer, so dysgenics kicked in later. It has always been the dumb and the genetically unfit who tended to have the highest number of children and thanks to high child mortality this excess offspring of theirs died off, after all, physical health including a good immune system strongly correlates with mental health (because the brain is 85% of the genome so a massive target for mutations which also cause physical anomalies and poor health) while the fewer but healthier children of the genetically fit and intelligent had a much better chance at survival. Industrialisation drove down child mortality rates to the point where the dumb and the sick aren't just outbreeding the rest, but their offspring almost always makes it to adulthood and there's a degeneration of the gene pool. Length and physical fitness correlate with intelligence so what we are seeing is an artefact of the later onset of lowering child mortality.

[@Gloves_and-Glory]

im a filipino 17, im 5'7, we ones visits holland, those dutch are tall as fuck even girls are taller than me, I really thought I could rizz in Netherlands, but my confident disappear once we finally walk beside them.

[@noname-pm6fm]

To Dutch people here in comment section. What is the average height of 14years old boy there? I'm 14 and have a height of 5'3-5'4 or 161cm I'm from Philippines anyway if you ask

[@nhan1710]

bạn có thể tra google và đó là 1m68

[@scoop5263]

Man that question is really hard to answer because I know some folk who have been 1.90 since they were 14 but me personally have been around 1.70 till I was 17 when I started growing a lot more due to proper nutrition and fixing my sleep patterns (while still being in my growth phase) and I am now 1.85. Since 14 is in the middle of puberty a 14 year old boy can be either 1.60 or 1.90 so giving an average would not mean anything.

[@albanhasani9984]

Natural selection and food

[@barthvos845]

Decades ago I read in a newspaper the only significant factor that causes the Dutch on average being taller than people of other countries is the higher concentration of magnesium in the tap water in the Netherlands.

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

Let's swap this around, when you are deficient in magnesium, sure you might not grow as tall as you would have. When you are not deficient though, more magnesium will not magically make humans grow taller. What makes you taller is genetics and hormones. The Dutch have a high dairy intake, with lots of rather concentrated dairy products. Dairy contains natural hormones (IGF-1)that makes calfs grow, but also other species if they decide to consume it. Also, we like to eat a lot of plastic packaged foods, and I mean acidous, moist and fatty foods, with plastic touching it all day on a very large surface. Like chicken filets. But also tomato puree in tin cans with plastic coatings. These hormonal disrupting chemicals that leak from this type of packaging is responsible for a lot of women to turn fertile increasingly young, and male to actually grow fertile at a higher age. When you turn fertile your body will not grow much any more. See the correlation? It is a combination of things, and magnesium can be a contributing factor, as growth of bones will require magnesium, but it is not the cause.

[@sabinesteil4690]

So why are the dutch above the rivers taller then the ones in the south? 🎼

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

@@sabinesteil4690 Genetics, historically these rivers were hard to cross.

[@sabinesteil4690]

@@vincenzodigrande2070 The difference in hights is a modern one though and the dutch cross waters for many generations.

[@vincenzodigrande2070]

@@sabinesteil4690 It is only recently revealing due to hormonal effects, which increases the differences that are based in the genetics. The rivers may have been crossed during peace times, but were also highly highly used strategically, for instance during the 80 year war with the Spanish. The southern part, under the rivers will have a lot more genetics stemming from the south of Europe, and these people are smaller, whereas the top, northern part will have more 'viking' / 'germanic' blood. So that basis has always been there and modern circumstances regarding food have only amplified what was already there.

[@GerbenDub]

Tall people are attracted to tall people etc, etc. Migration from North Africa lowers the average temporarily.

[@petertraudes106]

True enough, genetic research shows that partner choice (tall people mate with other tall people) is a descisive factor why dutch people are (on average) very tall.

[@dutchman7623]

@@petertraudes106 This means that Dutch shorties merry other Dutch shorties and compensate the growth. But kids usually grow taller than their parents...

[@petertraudes106]

@@dutchman7623 I God this story from a respected newspaper so i assume it is correct

[@barthvos845]

What you are referring to is sexual selection in the human species and I don't think there is a difference between Dutch sexual selection and sexual selection between people of other nationalities or if you want cultures. That would mean Dutch people behave like a different kind of species and that would be big news in the scientific world and I haven't seen any news of that kind in the past decades, so that seems to be 100% speculation.

[@petertraudes106]

@@barthvos845 Google AD artikel: dit is waarom Nederlanders zo lang zijn.

[@cashmoney8672]

I have been to Amsterdam iam 190cm, I didn't feel like Dutch were tallest people I met, majority of population I walked passed were average like 5'9 to 5'11, women were tall though ..

[@kawazaki23]

I said same thing this as well,,,majority are average height not many are that tall the tall people are minority trying to pose has majority thats image of dutch

[@connectionlost7216]

Seriously. Dutch people are tall no doubt, but they aren't giant level tall that would tower over you especially if you are 6-6'3 ft

[@jameshogan6142]

I have met some very tall Italians. 6' 7" some of them seemed. I also recall ,several French Rugby players being 6' 10" back in the 1980s.@@connectionlost7216

[@hkleider]

Yeah I'm 188 cm and felt "normal tall" in the Netherlands, rarely did I meet people towering over me and occasionally got comments on my height, but I didn't tower over everyone either. Either people are completely clueless about their height (studies show most men overestimate their height by about 5 cm) and don't know how to tell people's heights, or the Dutch like to exaggerate the tallness thing as part of their national image. But there's some hilariously exaggerated claims online.

[@majstter7420]

Do you know why the Dutch people are so tall? Because they need to survive the increasing sea level somehow.

[@tracywilliams7929]

😅hilarious

[@ericscott5224]

A few years back I read a study that explained how/why the Dutch, on average, became so tall in the last 200 years. Apparently taller women had/have a higher fertility rate than their shorter counterparts. Over time, that difference in fertility led to a larger proportion of taller people in the population.

[@speerboom]

This raises the question of why this works for the Dutch but not (or to a lesser degree) for others.

[@dutchman7623]

My grandmother was 156 cm, my mother 163, my sister 173. My grandfather was 158, my father 172, I am 178 (brothers 178 and 180) (I am 60+ in age) How do you explain this with natural selection? Three generations from about 1880, 1916 and 1954 in average. And this is from before the giant leap in the younger generations.

[@Linda-hs1lk]

@@dutchman7623 better food

[@Linda-hs1lk]

If that would be true then how come adopted children from other countries grow a lot taller here too?

[@kawazaki23]

@@Linda-hs1lk I am Somali immigrant born in the Netherlands and when I returned from U,K I started growing taller faster then ever it might be the fresh air and better living conditions.when I came I was 1.83m now I am 1.89m and still growing taller.

[@gsomethingsomething2658]

I'm an expat living in Cambodia. The average height for men is 5'5 :)

[@nutmeg6463]

5 feet 7.96 inches is about 172.6cm, not 175.62cm

[@No--bodylikesme]

I wish i was a little bit taller....

[@ronnie9187]

As a dutch 1.86 meter man, I am quit average. Not small and not tall. The world is not made for tall persons. Beds are for example 2 meters and if you stretch (like standing on your toes. Then a 2 meter bed is too small for people taller than 1.90, especially since your pillow also takes up space and you usually don't sleep with your head against the edge of the bed. In that context I am glad I am a Dutch dwarf that can sleep in any bed ;) In an airplane I am already cramped with my average height, idem in many cars in the back. With clothes I'm fine, but also here. People over 1.90 often have trouble finding clothes abroad. I have pants size 34 lenght and people who are a length larger, 36 or 38, have difficulty in many countries to find a suitable pants. For example, I live in Switzerland at the moment and here in many clothing stores my size is about maximum. And less then 5% of the man I see on the streets here are equal or taller then I am. Totally different in the Netherlands where I and my 1.75 wife are nicely average and can find without any problem nice clothings.

[@raymondw9305]

How common you can see a native Dutch teen who reachs 2 meters or taller in your city? 1 in 20? 1 in 30? 1 in 50?

[@ChromeMan04]

Me punching air as a 5’5 Afghan 😔

[@petersteinmeijer519]

Look up the meaning of the word ' infamous ' . As in ' infamous myth '.

[@ThuggDuckk]

The person making this video: Dutch being 5'7 on average 🤣 They are 183 on average (6') and 175cm is 5'9

[@kawazaki23]

no they are not they have shrunk to 1.80 cm and the bs claim that dutch are 1.84 is complete bs has well

[@ventanasdelalma7623]

They meant the average Dutch person, as men being 1.83 mt average and women being a bit over 1.68 mt average makes them collide in 175,62 mark, obviously the translated wrong 175,62 cm which should be more 5´9 than 5´7 but I already noticed many Europeans suck when converting centimeters/meters to feet inch system... because they translate X meters to X feet... but they fail to realize there are 12 inches in a feet, so you cannot do for example 1.7562 mt to feet = 5.7618 feet and assume those 5.761811 feet mean 5 feet 7,61811 inches because the inches cannot be converted directly from feet, you should rather just take aside the 5 feet number for later and work transforming 0,761811 feet to inches , all you need to do is multiply those 0,761811 x 12 and you will immediately have how many inches are there in the decimal feet = you have a result of 9,1416. Which means average Dutch person(men and women combined) are 5´9,1416 inches which would translate to 5´9 1/7 inches. Probably Registered more as 5´9 1/4 inches, as the American system usually rounds up or down from 1/4 - 1/2 - 3/4 etc for listing, and 5´9 1/7 is still closer to 5´9 1/4 than to 5´9 flat

[@raymondw9305]

Are you from the Netherlands?

[@damonliu3870]

@@kawazaki23 bruh

[@Xaviallin1]

@@kawazaki23 If It’s only *180 cm, why you saying you’re short at 189cm? That’s literally more than 3 inches above the average.

[@kevinmichael2538]

the dutch people are really tall and of course the country is known for people to be above average height so you think that they are athletes

[@officer905]

Omg tall 167cm here looks tiny

[@francesbernard2445]

In today's world you cannot tell which nation most of their genetic inheritance comes from anymore. That sometimes leads to a lot of misinterpretations of medical lab results in people who are under the age of 30.

[@maartjewaterman1193]

I am Dutch but I always have to ask for help in the supermarket when I need something from the highest shelves. On the other hand I never have to bend over when I drop something to pick it up. (joke)

[@HT-ym6re]

I am 1.93 m and 65 years old. I may have shrunk half a cm. When I was younger the slogan in the 60s was: Joris Driepinter / Met melk meer mans. I think the food standard is very high, but basically it is in the genes. And do not torget our curly kale (boerenkool). I think this is very Dutch. Many foreigners do not like it. Just like our 'drop' (liquorice).. I lived in Ireland, India and now in Spain, but as a Dutchy I am still a tower and hopefully a lighthouse as well.😅😊

[@seekoranjingkintamani3107]

Bruh 163 is already very tall for a girl if you compare it to a country like Indonesia

[@alexanderslee]

Joris Driepinter "3 glasses of milk per day." Mystery solved.

[@Linda-hs1lk]

I'm 171cm and I feel short most of the time, lol

[@alucardrick7016]

171cm is short, even for native Dutch girls?

[@majstter7420]

You're still taller than me and the same height as my girlfriend. I meet shorter people every day and I'm 168cm.

[@alucardrick7016]

@@majstter7420 Where are you form?

[@majstter7420]

Slovakia

[@alucardrick7016]

@@majstter7420 As a 168cm guy, it must be very, very ,very short among younger Slovakians, right?

[@alexwilder8315]

Makes no sense. Maybe the tallest nation in the world? But not people. What about the Sudanese. Have you ever been acquainted with a group of Sudanese people?

[@Luca-xv3oy]

Average height in South Africa is like 5’4 is

[@JP-bz1zz]

@@Luca-xv3oy He's talking about a complete different country

[@Linda-hs1lk]

They're tall but they're also very slim and that makes to look even taller.

[@EsLindell]

The Dinka’s of South Sudan are taller.

[@imprisonedone8054]

Thats a tribe not an nation.

[@LMNOP12]

I am 192 cm from India

[@brebuoch]

Who cares about the guys height? LOL. I am a guy so I wanna know how tall are Dutch girls age 20-45 these days. Where do 98% fall? Between 1.60 and 1.80?

[@nyb2.027]

Yep, exactly.

[@scoop5263]

23.1 of the females in the Netherlands are below 165 and 23.9 % is taller than 175. The other 53 % is in between 165 and 174.

[@-Ice_Cold-]

Why people cares about height at all?

[@amirulariffin9363]

I am pretty certain that The Dutch do not deserve to call themselves the world's tallest nation. Here are the reasons why. 1) If they are so tall, they would have topped the average height chart in every sporting events they have played in..They have never achieved this feat even once. 2) Demography. More than 13% of Dutch are non-European descend. Even with super high and very equal living standards, the non-White youngsters will still be alot shorter than their White/European peers due to genetics.. I am pretty sure The Dutch doctored their average height data. Now let's look at the competition. In almost every sporting even since year 2000, Team Serbia is always the tallest. Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Crna Gora has less than 5% non-White minority, with most of them being Romany Gypsies. This means, smaller height difference between ethnic and sub-ethnic groups.

[@classicallpvault8251]

1. abject nonsense: professional athletes are outliers, no matter their ethnicity. A nation with lower average length but higher variation will have taller athletes than a taller nation with less variation. 2. again, abject nonsense: they might be Dutch citizens but aren't part of the Dutch people. Ethnicity =/= nationality and the Dutch also happen to be an ethnic group - after whom a country was named hence the name is also referring to citizenship. The opposite can also be true, someone of full Dutch ancestry doesn't have to be a Dutch citizen. There are full blooded Dutch people who hold only Australian or Canadian citizenship so they are only Dutch in one sense of the word. The reason that Serbia has the tallest sports team is because a population subgroup in the wider region, the natives of the Dinaric Alps, are very tall. That doesn't mean that their population average is also the highest. The populations living in the lowland areas are much shorter. Same with the Chinese and their IQ: Chinese have one of the highest average IQs in the world but they have relatively few outliers. Spaniards might have a 10 point IQ disadvantage over them but produce far more outliers (retards and geniuses). Your logic's stupidity can be illustrated by deducting that the Chinese cannot have higher average IQs because, despite massive differences in population size, they won far fewer Nobel prizes than Spaniards (which by the way is true - and the difference is colossal even without taking into account population size). You cannot extrapolate the outliers of a group to an average!

[@goldmanking7468]

Maasi and Tutsi are taller.

[@JordanLittle-bb3yq]

I believe if you're Dutch and you're really that tall you should be forced to carry a pilots license. I mean it! This is the dumbest law I could come up with on the spot and I demand that it gets adopted immediately!

[@Xaviallin1]

Why pilots license?

[@strati5phere]

Reason Dutch are so tall is because of bicycle culture.

[@2cvburton]

Then the chinese and other bikeridingcountrys would also be tall but they aren’t.

[@dutchman7623]

@@2cvburton Chinese people from the Netherlands are taller than those in China.

[@henkoosterink8744]

@@dutchman7623 Dutch people from China are less tall than in Holland

[@dutchman7623]

@@henkoosterink8744 But taller than their family in China. And many have lactose intolerance, so consume none or few diary products.

[@henkoosterink8744]

@@dutchman7623 Diary products are not that healthy.

[@Linda-hs1lk]

1.75cm is not the average height, that's short.

[@leebinpoggersmomento6101]

Woman moment

[@TechnoSan09]

Ya that's indeed very short Very

[@pranavgohel6710]

Yeah very short we need 10 feet tall ppl

[@ventanasdelalma7623]

they meant the average dutch person is 175,6 cm, which would be because Dutch Men averaging 183 cm and Dutch women being 168,2 cm which would put the average Dutch person (regardless of gender) in the 175,6 mark.

[@raymondw9305]

175 is even short for younger Dutch girls.

[@augustinefaithdefender]

Who the hell drink milk three times a day, dude is a psychopath lol

[@kawazaki23]

I drink 1 liters or sometimes even 1.5l of milk a day that adds up to 7 liters a week times 28 liters of milk a month so again I have consumed 336 liters of milk in 2021 and 2020 and now 2023 I shall to it again inshallah to aid my bone growth inshallah.

[@thr77606]

Okay, I'm supposed to call black and Arab people born and raised in the Netherlands "Dutch", to not differentiate between them and the white Dutch. Dutch is Dutch. Then I'm told the Dutch are super tall, yet whoever says this is referring only to the white Dutch. How can anyone say the Dutch are so tall without being racist? It's literally saying Dutch non-whites are not Dutch

[@classicallpvault8251]

You can get a Dutch passport but you cannot change your ethnicity to Dutch as a non-Dutch. The Dutch are not just a nationality but an ethnic group and we are a West Frankish Germanic people with significant amounts of German and Scandinavian admixture. By the way, it's about time we stopped bitching about 'racism': ethnocentrism is just a normal and universal human instinct and should not be hurled as an accusation at people. It is just as natural to feel more connection with one's own ethnicity, than to feel more connection with one's own family.

[@Xaviallin1]

Because *ahem* it’s called GENES

[@confirmingselection]

0:47 imma drink a lot of milk now and hopefully when i finish growing i'll reach 6ft

[@kawazaki23]

I am 1.89 m I hope to grow to god willingly I already consume milk every day

[@edwardnewgate2534]

please help me😢. give tutorial to tallee is real no fake🙏🏻