White people are by far the tallest, a study titled "The height and body mass index of school-age children and adolescents. "Growth and body mass index of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies involving 65 million participants. Lancet 2020, 396:1511-1524." The upper age limit of the study subjects was 19. Nineteen-year-old Poles , on average, are taller than their Indian peers by 14.2 cm, and 16.4 cm taller than Mozambican blacks. More broadly, the average height of nineteen-year-old males presented the following from the highest (2019): Central and Eastern Europe (178.29 cm), high-income Western countries (177.69 cm), Central Asia and North Africa - Middle East (173.72 cm), high-income Asia and the Pacific (173.16 cm), Latin America and the Caribbean (172.40 cm), East and Southeast Asia (172.12 cm), Sub-Saharan Africa (169.64 cm), South Asia (166.47 cm), and Oceania (164.53 cm). Links to sources at the bottom of the linked article.
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