[文化] 中国人平均身高全球排名第90位（双语）

　　世界上哪个国家的人身高最高？

　　瑞士《商报》7月26日称，一个国际研究团队日前公布的调查结果显示，荷兰男性以平均1.825米、拉脱维亚女性以1.7米，分别夺得男女平均身高第一。东帝汶男性(1.6米)和危地马拉女性(1.49米)为全球平均身高最矮。

　　Recently, Handels Zeitung released an research result about the average height of people around the world.

　　项由英国帝国理工学院率领的研究团队负责，追踪了1914年至2014年，全球180多个国家和地区的成年人口平均身高的变化趋势。结果显示，东亚地区人口身高增长幅度最大。中国、韩国和日本人口的平均身高要比一个世纪前“高得多”，韩国女性的平均身高甚至增高了约20厘米，增幅为世界200个国家之最。韩国男性则增加15.1厘米，增幅排名第3。

　　This research was conducted by Imperial College London, they traced the variation trend of average height through more than 180 countries and areas from 1914 to 2014. The result show that people in east Asia has the biggest increase. The average height of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese is much more higher than a hundred years ago.

　　Korean female's average height is 20cm taller, and it remains the highest increase over 200 countries. The average height of Korean male is 15.1cm, and it's the third-highest increase.

　　一些国家人口的身高近年出现停滞现象。比如，美国男女的平均身高在100年前分列三四名，2014年跌到37和42名。而撒哈拉以南的非洲地区还出现身高变矮的趋势。专家认为，身高不仅取决于基因，还与营养和环境因素存在极大关系。

　　Some countries' average height also have stagnation. For example, American was once in the top list of the tallest people in the world. The average height of American male and female was the third and forth respectively a hundred years ago, but it fell to the 37th and 42nd in 2014. And in some area, such as sub-Saharan Africa, the average height also has decreasion.

　　Experts think that the change of human's height is not simply decided by gene, sometimes it is also influenced by the nutrition condition and the living environment.

　　100年前韩国女性身高在200个国家中倒数第5，而现在跃居第55。韩国男性身高在200国中排名从第150升至第51。

　　The average height of Korean female was the fifth from the bottom a hundred years ago. However, it became the 55th in 2014. And the average height of Korean male also increased from the 150th to the 51th.

　　此外，截至2014年荷兰是男性平均身高最高的国家，为182.5厘米。拉脱维亚女性平均身高为169.8厘米。中国人排名则从第130名升至第90名。

　　Additionally, the average height of male in Netherlands was the tallest till 2014, it's 182.5cm. And the tallest female average height is in Latvia, it's 169.8. The ranking of China increased from the 130th to the 90th.

　　Chinese Source: 新华网

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