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Annual change in average female height

The relative annual change in the mean height of adult women by year of birth. Data for the latest cohort (the year 1996) is therefore the mean height of women aged 18 in 2014. Positive values indicate an increase in average height; negative values indicate a decline.

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14 May 2019
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