You may be 6 feet tall now—but research says you would have been several inches shorter a century ago. Use our calculator to find out.

The average height of women in the United States is 5 feet 3.5 inches. Women's average height ranges from 4 feet 11 inches to 5 feet 7 inches worldwide. Your height can be affected by your genetics, ...

Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult. The average height of a population can indicate the health of its people since ...

Children are growing taller, but only because they are becoming fatter, research shows. A study by the University of Oxford shows that 11-year-old girls are almost an inch taller than those just over ...

The charts below will give you an idea of how your mini-me compares to the average height and weight for kids in their age group. But keep in mind: The numbers in these charts are just a benchmark. It ...

Background News media have reported that the average height of British children is falling, but these reports have been ...