The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration's project provided height data from 1985 to 2019, assessing over 2,500 population surveys across 193 countries, which illustrates stark global height differences.
Despite being home to Sultan Kösen, the world's tallest person at nearly 8 feet 3 inches, Turkey does not rank among the countries with the tallest mean heights.
The mean heights measured refer to 19-year-old men and women and combining those figures gives a clearer understanding of national height averages.
The US notably did not make the list of tallest countries, with ranked heights of 5 feet 4.29 inches for women and 5 feet 9.65 inches for men.
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