JNU Center of Social Medicine and Community Health has studied, why the average ‘height’ of Indians is decreasing in India. Today we tell you, whose ‘stature’ is increasing based on religion and which What is the decrease? Everyone is concerned about their height, if someone’s height is good, then the words become nice, then someone with short stature keeps making various efforts to increase it for a long time.
Indians are already very concerned about their stature. In such a situation, now a study has come to the fore in which they have revealed that the height of men and women of which state has decreased or increased in the last few years. Along with this, shocking revelations about height have also been made based on religion in research.
They did this study about the height of Indians. They revealed in this research that the ‘average height’ of Indian people is continuously decreasing. Regarding this, some say that between 2005-06 to 2015-16, the average height of Indians has decreased. Whereas, on the contrary, the height of people is increasing in other countries. The Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, a department of Jawaharlal Nehru University has done this study. According to this research, the average height of adult women and men in the country has decreased.
In this study, they did the first research on the average height of women and men based on state, caste, income, and age, after which they released the data of the results. According to the study, there has been a decline in the average height of Indian men in the age group of 15-50 years. Between 2005-06 and 2015-16, the average height of Indians aged between 15 and 25 has decreased by 1.10 cm. At the same time, the average height of men of 26 to 50 years has also decreased by 0.86 cm.
The study also revealed that the average height of 15-25-year-old Indian women has also decreased. The average stature of women in this age group declined by 0.12 cm between 2005-06 and 2015-16. There has been an increase in the average height of women aged 26-50. Whereas, the average height of women of this age group has increased by 0.13 cm.
Know the statistics of the states also
Haryana- During 2005-06 and 2015-16, the height of men here declined the most.
Haryana-Women’s height has declined the most.
Meghalaya- Here the height of men increased the most
Sikkim- The stature of women increased the most
Karnataka- The biggest drop in the height of men in the age group of 26-50
Jharkhand is at number two after Haryana, where men’s height decreased by 2 centimeters.
You will be surprised to know that according to religion also ‘stature’ is increasing.
In the study, researched it religion based on also, that the height of a person of which religion increased or decreased. Statistics show that the highest decline in the height of Zoroastrian men occurred between 2005-06 and 2015-16. At number two are men of Jainism. Except for the women of Buddhism and Jainism, the height of women of all other religions is decreasing.
