Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD The average height for women is different across the world. In the United States, the ...

Both Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens are accomplished athletes, but one thing they don't have in common is their height; ...

The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but this change has not occurred equally among men and women, a new study shows.

Though bias from self-reporting has long been considered a factor in this height assessment ... linked to growing wealth inequality in the United States beginning in particular around the 1980s.