According to the statistics, the tallest men in the world live in the Netherlands (5 feet 11.9 in or 183 cm average) and the tallest women come from Latvia (5 feet 5 in or 170 cm average) according to the largest study ever done on people's heights by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration.The global project included data from more than 1,400 previous studies that had the heights of almost 19 million people in 200 countries. These studies included the heights of people who were 18 during every year between 1914 and 2014. Besides Netherlands, tall men also live in Belgium, Latvia and Estonia. Speaking about the tallest women, Belgium is not on the list - the Czech women are taller, just like Dutch, Estonian and Latvian women.

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