1.Some insanly tall countries haven't got memberships into the table,like Serbia,Montenegro,South Sudan,Crotia,Senegal and other countries.
So the rank was fked up and falsely positioned every country upwards.
2.The word 'Quotation' invovled in the original paper is warning you against that this statistic is just conjecture,not realistic measurements.It's ridiculous to imagine a medical team will more volunteer to seek for every corner to manipulate measurements on their own for random countries.What a horrendous project it is and it's a meaningless project or just aimming for people's quarrels about who is taller than who.
And they have even done a nice job to estimate North Korean average height is around 174.7cm barefoot LOOOOL.
3.Lancet journals are riddled with untenable and controversial conclusions if you have knew the palse of what Lancet is and stop perceiving that just bc it's a world-famous medical corp,it's the embediment of God.Authority can't triumph reality.If you don't believe me,go for NCBI and fill out the blank with 'upper and lower body ratio',you'll know every author is 'Leonardo Da Vinci'.
4.The more indigent a country is,the less rigorous measurements are,and it's same with towns and places.At least,America and Japan tend to publish medical data annually but developing countries tend to publish them periodically and undeveloped countries tend to seldom publish them!
Due to communicational unconveniences,human resources,solid occupational philosophy shortages and so on,we can't hardly reason why undeveloped and developing countries are causal about height measurements and for instance,I'm studying in a civilian-supported fking uni,and during the military drill,all of the collegemates are compelled into the medical and everyone stood up to a ultrasonic measurers with shoes and thicker haircuts than me,also we have to be awared that measurers can count your hair thicks into the measurements and your skull angel will impact on the final results as well,so they are not relible at all.
The more undeveloped a place is,the more skeptical local average height statistics tend to be,generally speaking.
What's more,this thread is more relevant to height.Were you satisfied,Matt Murdock?