Height varies a lot around the world. Using medical data, Insider calculated average height figures for the 25 shortest countries. Scroll down to see the nations with the shortest people on earth.

The shortest people in the world live on the 11,883 ... The Netherlands, meanwhile, is the tallest country in the world. Men, on average, measure 5 feet 11.86 inches, and women are 5 feet 6. ...

Countries with the shortest average heights ... Guatemala has one of the lowest average heights in the world with the shortest people found therein. With an overall average height of roughly ...

Rumeysa Gelgi was confirmed as the tallest woman alive in 2021, while Jyoti Amge was named the shortest woman in 2011 Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

The world's smallest living men and women, though? Only one of the officially listed world's shortest living people is from a country on this list. Their heights stem from forms of dwarfism. In 2009, ...