Human height is the height of a human body. Factors that influence human height are genetics, what people eat, the human body's natural chemicals, and being sick or healthy.
Over the last two millennia, human height, based on skeletal remains, has stayed fairly steady, oscillating around 170 cm (5 ft 7 in). The global mean height of adult men born in 1996 was 171 cm (5 ft 7 in), while the global average height of adult women born in 1996 was 159 cm (5 ft 3 in).
Men from Bosnia and Herzegovina have the tallest average height.