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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The average human male height is 5'9"
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The six most populous countries in the world are China, India, the U.S., Indonesia, Pakistan, and Brazil, in that order. Those six countries account for almost half the world's population, but of them all, the U.S. is the only one that produces a significant number of hockey players. It is silly to look at world averages for height. You have to look at the countries where hockey is a popular game, and there you will find a different story.
The average adult male in Canada is 5'10", according to actuarial data. And that figure includes older men who have begun losing height because of joint wear (especially in the spine). Similar figures obtain for Americans, and Scandinavians are, if I recall, slightly taller. I haven't seen figures for Russia and probably couldn't trust them if I had, but Russians do not have the reputation of being small people on average.
To get the height of the average young man in the hockey-playing parts of the world, you need to tack an inch or two onto your number.