Personal anecdotal experience here, I feel like we've always been shorter on average than our European counterparts, particularly the Northern Europeans but I reckon the young kids nowadays are far taller on average too.
I'm a shade over 6ft and when I was younger I felt pretty tall in the general population where it was only guys around 6'3 that seemed much taller than me but those were fairly few and far between. These days I feel like most young kids are above 6'2" despite living on McDonalds chicken nuggets for most their life and not being outdoors as much growing up as we were. It's weird.
Gym participation is a factor too now though, much more young guys are conscious of their physical condition and will spend 5 days minimum per week doing strength training. I remember that being a thing that we only started doing in our early twenties, trying to look ripped in the club at the weekend but prior to that most guys had never seen the inside of a gym in their lives. Now half these kids are trying to look like social media fitness influencers.
I'm a shade over 6ft and when I was younger I felt pretty tall in the general population where it was only guys around 6'3 that seemed much taller than me but those were fairly few and far between. These days I feel like most young kids are above 6'2" despite living on McDonalds chicken nuggets for most their life and not being outdoors as much growing up as we were. It's weird.
Gym participation is a factor too now though, much more young guys are conscious of their physical condition and will spend 5 days minimum per week doing strength training. I remember that being a thing that we only started doing in our early twenties, trying to look ripped in the club at the weekend but prior to that most guys had never seen the inside of a gym in their lives. Now half these kids are trying to look like social media fitness influencers.
