Who is the smaller person in the world

Kosen is years-old and works as a farmer. Dangi, meanwhile, is 74 and has a job making placemats and head straps for villagers. Get The Brief. Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now.

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World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Bill Bostock. Sri Lanka — Honduras — Liberia — Myanmar — Brunei — Bhutan — Mozambique — Solomon Islands — Papua New Guinea— Peru — However, things get a little more complicated when we try to find out in which country live the shortest people in the world on average.

While it may seem like a tough question to answer at first, luckily there were several kinds of research made throughout recent years that can help us find an answer to this question. The fact that a man from the Philippines is the shortest person in the world also helps point us in the right direction, because that country is ranked quite high on the list of countries with the shortest people.

However, it is not the first one. The country with the shortest people in the world is actually East Timor, or Timor-Leste, which is an island country in Southeast Asia. The average height of people on this island is just 5 feet 1. It is a bit weird to think about the fact that the place where you are born actually determines your height, but it does.

Researchers have tracked the heights of millions of people across the world and tried to find how they have changed throughout the years. By examining the results of these kinds of researches, we are able to see how height is distributed all over the globe and also how the average height has been changing throughout the decades.

Interestingly, Iranians have grown the most over the 20th century.