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Mean Height of 19yo Males in Select Countries, 1985-2019 (i.redd.it)

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[–] squirrel@piefed.zip 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Confused by the dashed lines at first. It's not an estimation of future heights, it just points to the country names...

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The final year or two is anecdotal. "I don't have data for this period, but I did recently meet a really short American dude, so they're probably trending shorter."