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  1. Height of individuals in England 1998-2022, by gender

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    Updated Sep 24, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Height of individuals in England 1998-2022, by gender [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/332542/height-of-individuals-by-gender-in-england-uk/
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    Sep 24, 2024
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    United Kingdom, England
    Description

    In the shown time-period the mean height of men and women has generally increased in England. According to the survey, the average height of males rose slightly during the period in consideration, from 174.4 centimeters in 1998 to 176.2 centimeters (approximately 5'9") in 2022. In comparison, the mean height of women was 162.3 centimeters (5'4") in 2022, up from 161 in 1998. Reasons for height increasing While a large part of an adult’s final height is based on genetics, the environment in which a person grows up is also important. Improvements in nutrition, healthcare, and hygiene have seen the average heights increase over the last century, particularly in developed countries. Average height is usually seen as a barometer for the overall health of the population of a country, as the most developed are usually among the ‘tallest’ countries. Average waist circumference also increasing The prevalence of obesity among adults in England has generally been trending upward since 2000. In that year, 21 percent of men and women in England were classified as obese. By 2021, however, this share was 26 percent among women and 25 percent among men. Every adult age group in England had an average BMI which was classified as overweight, apart from those aged 16 to 24, indicating there is a problem with overweightness in England.

  2. Average height of men in the top 20 countries worldwide 2016

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    Statista, Average height of men in the top 20 countries worldwide 2016 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/587939/average-height-of-men-in-the-top-20-countries-worldwide/
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    Time period covered
    2016
    Area covered
    World
    Description

    This statistic represents the average height of men in the top 20 countries worldwide as of 2016. On average, men are ***** centimeters tall in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

  3. Ideal height for men and women in Great Britain 2019

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    Updated Jul 9, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Ideal height for men and women in Great Britain 2019 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1062210/public-perception-of-ideal-height-for-men-and-women-gb/
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    Jul 9, 2025
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    Time period covered
    Apr 19, 2019 - May 3, 2019
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    According to a survey conducted by Ipsos, the perfect height for men, according to ** percent of survey participants in Great Britain, was between * feet ** inches to * feet * inch. As for women, ** percent of respondents stated that the ideal height for a woman should be between * feet * inches and * feet * inches.

  4. Average men's height

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    Ilya Kashnitsky (2023). Average men's height [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3394795.v2
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    May 30, 2023
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    Ilya Kashnitsky
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    Description

    This is a data set from the publication

    Hatton, T. J., & Bray, B. E. (2010). Long run trends in the heights of European men, 19th–20th centuries. Economics & Human Biology, 8(3), 405–413. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2010.03.001The data set represents average height of the men from several European countries born in the cohorts 1856-1980, 5-years averages.

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    Historical median heights for various countries, 1818-2013

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    Updated Jan 19, 2016
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    Randy Olson (2016). Historical median heights for various countries, 1818-2013 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1066523.v2
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    Jan 19, 2016
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    Randy Olson
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    Description

    Dutch, French, Italian (1818-1940): http://www.nber.org/chapters/c7435.pdf Dutch (1955-2009): http://www.nature.com/pr/journal/v73/n3/pdf/pr2012189a.pdf Swedish (1841-1952): http://pediatrisk-endokrinologi.no/2008/1/Werner_2008_1.pdf Danish and Germans (1856-1980): http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~hatton/Tim_height_paper.pdf Americans (1710-1980): http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/changing-body-health-nutrition-and-human-development-western-world-1700 All 2013 heights: http://www.averageheight.co/average-male-height-by-country Means and medians are not too different (rarely more than 1 cm difference) because within-country heights for specific gender are generally normally distributed.

  6. Mean body mass index in England 2022, by gender and age

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    Updated Dec 20, 2024
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    Statista (2024). Mean body mass index in England 2022, by gender and age [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/375886/adult-s-body-mass-index-by-gender-and-age-in-england/
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    Dec 20, 2024
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    Time period covered
    2022
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
    Description

    In 2022, men aged 55 to 64 years had an average body mass index (BMI) of 29 kg/m2 and women in the same age group had a BMI of 28.8 kg/m2, the highest mean BMI across all the age groups. Apart from individuals aged 16 to 24 years, every demographic in England had an average BMI which is classified as overweight.An increasing problem It is shown that the mean BMI of individuals for both men and women has been generally increasing year-on-year in England. The numbers show in England, as in the rest of the United Kingdom (UK), that the prevalence of obesity is an increasing health problem. The prevalence of obesity in women in England has increased by around nine percent since 2000, while for men the share of obesity has increased by six percent. Strain on the health service Being overweight increases the chances of developing serious health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancers. In the period 2019/20, England experienced over 10.7 thousand hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of obesity, whereas in 2002/03 this figure was only 1,275 admissions. Furthermore, the number of bariatric surgeries taking place in England, particularly among women, has significantly increased over the last fifteen years. In 2019/20, over 5.4 thousand bariatric surgery procedures were performed on women and approximately 1.3 thousand were carried out on men.

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    Average birth weight and height for sample population percentiles for males...

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    Updated Jun 5, 2023
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    Piers Dawes; Karen J. Cruickshanks; David R. Moore; Heather Fortnum; Mark Edmondson-Jones; Abby McCormack; Kevin J. Munro (2023). Average birth weight and height for sample population percentiles for males and females. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136590.t002
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    Piers Dawes; Karen J. Cruickshanks; David R. Moore; Heather Fortnum; Mark Edmondson-Jones; Abby McCormack; Kevin J. Munro
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    Average birth weight and height for sample population percentiles for males and females.

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    Supplementary information files for Maternal height-standardized prevalence...

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    Omar Karlsson; Rockli Kim; Barry Bogin; SV Subramanian (2023). Supplementary information files for Maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting in 67 low- and middle-income countries [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.15035118.v1
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    May 30, 2023
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    Loughborough University
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    Omar Karlsson; Rockli Kim; Barry Bogin; SV Subramanian
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    Description

    Supplementary files for article Maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting in 67 low- and middle-income countries.Background: Prevalence of stunting is frequently used as a marker of population-level child undernutrition. Parental height varies widely in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and is also a major determinant of stunting. While stunting is a useful measure of child health, with multiple causal components, removing the component attributable to parental height may in some cases be helpful to identify shortcoming in current environments.Methods: We estimated maternal height-standardized prevalence of stunting (SPS) in 67 LMICs and parental height-SPS in 20 LMICs and compared with crude prevalence of stunting (CPS) using data on 575,767 children under-five from 67 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). We supplemented the DHS with population-level measures of other child health outcomes from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Health Observatory and the United Nations’ Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Prevalence of stunting was defined as percentage of children with height-for-age falling below −2 z-scores from the median of the 2006 WHO growth standard.Results: The average CPS across countries was 27.8% (95% confidence interval [CI], 27.5–28.1%) and the average SPS was 23.3% (95% CI, 23.0–23.6%). The rank of countries according to SPS differed substantially from the rank according to CPS. Guatemala, Bangladesh, and Nepal had the biggest improvement in ranking according to SPS compared to CPS, while Gambia, Mali, and Senegal had the biggest decline in ranking. Guatemala had the largest difference between CPS and SPS with a CPS of 45.2 (95% CI, 43.7–46.9%) and SPS of 14.1 (95% CI, 12.6–15.8%). Senegal had the largest increase in the prevalence after standardizing maternal height, with a CPS of 28.0% (95% CI, 25.8–30.2%) and SPS of 31.6% (95% CI, 29.5–33.8%). SPS correlated better than CPS with other population-level measures of child health.Conclusions: Our study suggests that CPS is sensitive to adjustment for maternal height. Maternal height, while a strong predictor of child stunting, is not amenable to policy interventions. We showed the plausibility of SPS in capturing current exposures to undernutrition and infections in children.

  9. Maternity Services Monthly Statistics - Sep and Oct 2015

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    Health and Social Care Information Centre (2016). Maternity Services Monthly Statistics - Sep and Oct 2015 [Dataset]. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/maternity-services-monthly-statistics-sep-and-oct-2015
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    Mar 2, 2016
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    Health and Social Care Information Centre
    Description

    This publication provides separate monthly reports on NHS-funded maternity services in England for September and October 2015. This is the latest release from the new Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) and will be published on a monthly basis.

    The MSDS is a patient-level data set that captures key information at each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, such as those maternity services provided by GP practices and hospitals. The data collected includes mother’s demographics, booking appointments, admissions and re-admissions, screening tests, labour and delivery along with baby’s demographics, diagnoses and screening tests.

    The MSDS has been developed to help achieve better outcomes of care for mothers, babies and children. As a ‘secondary uses’ data set, it re-uses clinical and operational data for purposes other than direct patient care, such as commissioning, clinical audit, research, service planning and performance management at both local and national level. It will provide comparative, mother and child-centric data that will be used to improve clinical quality and service efficiency, and to commission services in a way that improves health and reduces inequalities.

    These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation. They are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage. More information about experimental statistics can be found on the UK Statistics Authority website.

    This report contains key information based on the submissions that have been made by providers and will focus on data relating to activity that occurred in September 2015.

    • For September 2015 data, 78 providers successfully submitted data for the MSDS. This compares with 141 providers submitting data in HES for 2014-15. We are working closely with providers who did not respond and expect coverage and data quality to increase over time.
    • The average age of a woman attending a booking appointment was 30 years. The average age varied by commissioning region from 29 years in the North of England Commissioning Region to 31 years in the London Commissioning Region.
    • Women under the age of 20 accounted for 4.2 per cent of all women with a recorded age. The highest proportion of these pregnancies occurred in the North of England Commissioning Region, where 4.8 per cent of women were under the age of 20.
    • The percentage of women attending antenatal appointments with a recorded height and weight that were obese (with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30) was 21 per cent. Those who were underweight (BMI less than 18.5), accounted for 9 per cent of all women attending booking appointments with a recorded height and weight.
    • At the time of their booking appointment, 13 per cent of women with a recorded smoking status were smokers, and 77 per cent were non-smokers.
    • The percentage of women with a recorded number (between 0 and 20) of previous births and caesarean sections that had not given birth before was 43 per cent. Women who had given birth before, but had never had a caesarean section accounted for 44 per cent of all the women attending booking appointments. The percentage of women that had had at least one previous caesarean section was 13 per cent.

    This report contains key information based on the submissions that have been made by providers and will focus on data relating to activity that occurred in October 2015.

    • For October 2015 data, 80 providers successfully submitted data for the MSDS. This compares with 141 providers submitting data in HES for 2014-15. We are working closely with providers who did not respond and expect coverage and data quality to increase over time.
    • The average age of a woman attending a booking appointment was 29 years. The average age varied by commissioning region from 29 years in the North of England Commissioning Region to 31 years in the London Commissioning Region.
    • Women under the age of 20 accounted for 4.1 per cent of all women with a recorded age. The highest proportion of these pregnancies occurred in the North of England Commissioning Region, where 5.1 per cent of women were under the age of 20.
    • The percentage of women attending antenatal appointments with a recorded height and weight that were obese (with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 30) was 19 per cent. Those who were underweight (BMI less than 18.5), accounted for 9 per cent of women attending booking appointments with a recorded height and weight.
    • At the time of their booking appointment, 12 per cent of women with a recorded smoking status were smokers, and 78 per cent were non-smokers.
    • The percentage of women with a recorded num

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    Data from: Supplementary information files for Height and body-mass index...

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    NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; Oonagh Markey (2023). Supplementary information files for Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.13241105.v1
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    NCD Risk Factor Collaboration; Oonagh Markey
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    Supplementary files for article Supplementary information files for Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants.BackgroundComparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents.MethodsFor this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1985 to 2019 in mean height and mean BMI in 1-year age groups for ages 5–19 years. The model allowed for non-linear changes over time in mean height and mean BMI and for non-linear changes with age of children and adolescents, including periods of rapid growth during adolescence.FindingsWe pooled data from 2181 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in 65 million participants in 200 countries and territories. In 2019, we estimated a difference of 20 cm or higher in mean height of 19-year-old adolescents between countries with the tallest populations (the Netherlands, Montenegro, Estonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina for boys; and the Netherlands, Montenegro, Denmark, and Iceland for girls) and those with the shortest populations (Timor-Leste, Laos, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea for boys; and Guatemala, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Timor-Leste for girls). In the same year, the difference between the highest mean BMI (in Pacific island countries, Kuwait, Bahrain, The Bahamas, Chile, the USA, and New Zealand for both boys and girls and in South Africa for girls) and lowest mean BMI (in India, Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Ethiopia, and Chad for boys and girls; and in Japan and Romania for girls) was approximately 9–10 kg/m2. In some countries, children aged 5 years started with healthier height or BMI than the global median and, in some cases, as healthy as the best performing countries, but they became progressively less healthy compared with their comparators as they grew older by not growing as tall (eg, boys in Austria and Barbados, and girls in Belgium and Puerto Rico) or gaining too much weight for their height (eg, girls and boys in Kuwait, Bahrain, Fiji, Jamaica, and Mexico; and girls in South Africa and New Zealand). In other countries, growing children overtook the height of their comparators (eg, Latvia, Czech Republic, Morocco, and Iran) or curbed their weight gain (eg, Italy, France, and Croatia) in late childhood and adolescence. When changes in both height and BMI were considered, girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries (eg, Armenia and Azerbaijan), and boys in central and western Europe (eg, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, and Montenegro) had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI. The unhealthiest changes—gaining too little height, too much weight for their height compared with children in other countries, or both—occurred in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, New Zealand, and the USA for boys and girls; in Malaysia and some Pacific island nations for boys; and in Mexico for girls.InterpretationThe height and BMI trajectories over age and time of school-aged children and adolescents are highly variable across countries, which indicates heterogeneous nutritional quality and lifelong health advantages and risks.

  11. Median gross weekly pay for full-time homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020, by...

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    Statista (2025). Median gross weekly pay for full-time homeworkers in the UK 2011-2020, by gender [Dataset]. https://tokrwards.com/?_=%2Fstatistics%2F1241234%2Faverage-weekly-pay-for-uk-homeworkers-by-gender%2F%23D%2FIbH0PhabzN99vNwgDeng71Gw4euCn%2B
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    Time period covered
    2020
    Area covered
    United Kingdom
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    In 2020, the average median weekly earnings for men who were full-time workers was *** British pounds a week, compared with *** for women. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in **********, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and just ** percent of people were traveling to work.

  12. Waist circumference in England 2022, by gender and age

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    Updated Jul 17, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Waist circumference in England 2022, by gender and age [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/375954/waist-circumference-by-gender-and-age-in-england/
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    Jul 17, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2022
    Area covered
    United Kingdom (England)
    Description

    In 2022, the mean waist circumference in England among the age group of 65 to 74 years was 104.5 centimeters for men and 91.3 centimeters for women. The was the age group with the largest average waist circumference among men, while the highest among women was reported in the age groups 55 to 64 years and above 75 years. Age and gender differences in very high waist circumference The 2022 data shows that the age group between 65 and 74 years in England had the largest share of men with very high waist circumference at 54 percent, whereas 56 percent of the women in the age group from 55 to 64 years had the same classification. Interestingly, both men and women. The youngest age group, 16 to 34 years, had the smallest share of individuals with very high waist circumference for both genders, with men at 17 percent and women at 34 percent. Obesity trends and health implications The increasing waist sizes align with broader obesity trends in England. In 2022, the mean body mass index (BMI) for both men and women was 27.6, which falls into the overweight category. This is part of a steady upward trend since 1998. The prevalence of obesity has also risen, with 30 percent of women and 28 percent of men classified as obese in 2022, up from 21 percent for both genders in 2000. Additionally, 39 percent of men and 31 percent of women were classified as overweight in 2022, while the share of individuals classified as having normal body weight was 31 percent among men and 37 percent among women in England.

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    Tree canopy cover and height data at 10m resolution for the North Pennines...

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    M. Minter; T. Finch (2025). Tree canopy cover and height data at 10m resolution for the North Pennines and Dales landscape, northern England, 2023 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5285/9e3055a3-a56b-4210-9628-4acd096ed9b7
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    M. Minter; T. Finch
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    Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
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    Dataset funded by
    Natural Environment Research Council
    Description

    This dataset provides information on tree canopy cover percentage and mean canopy height, both at a 10m resolution, for the North Pennines & Dales in northern England. The data was derived from LiDAR analysis, which was used to create a vegetation height model for the region. From this model, tree crowns were identified and subsequently processed into two raster datasets: one representing the percentage of tree canopy cover and the other depicting mean canopy height, both specific to the North Pennines & Dales landscape. While significant efforts were made to exclude non-vegetative structures, some non-vegetative objects may still be present in the dataset.

  14. Average scheme size of BTR developments in the UK 2024

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    Updated Jul 10, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Average scheme size of BTR developments in the UK 2024 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/830602/scheme-size-of-build-to-rent-developments-united-kingdom/
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    Jul 10, 2025
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    United Kingdom
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    In the UK, the average scheme size of build-to-rent housing in planning as of 2024 was notably larger than the scheme size of completed properties. In the second quarter of the year, projects in planning had an average size of *** units, while for completed projects, this figure amounted to ***. Build-to-rent, or BTR is residential housing, flats or houses, that are built specifically to be rented. They are usually professionally managed and offer longer leasing periods.

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Height of individuals in England 1998-2022, by gender

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United Kingdom, England
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In the shown time-period the mean height of men and women has generally increased in England. According to the survey, the average height of males rose slightly during the period in consideration, from 174.4 centimeters in 1998 to 176.2 centimeters (approximately 5'9") in 2022. In comparison, the mean height of women was 162.3 centimeters (5'4") in 2022, up from 161 in 1998. Reasons for height increasing While a large part of an adult’s final height is based on genetics, the environment in which a person grows up is also important. Improvements in nutrition, healthcare, and hygiene have seen the average heights increase over the last century, particularly in developed countries. Average height is usually seen as a barometer for the overall health of the population of a country, as the most developed are usually among the ‘tallest’ countries. Average waist circumference also increasing The prevalence of obesity among adults in England has generally been trending upward since 2000. In that year, 21 percent of men and women in England were classified as obese. By 2021, however, this share was 26 percent among women and 25 percent among men. Every adult age group in England had an average BMI which was classified as overweight, apart from those aged 16 to 24, indicating there is a problem with overweightness in England.

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