if they actually picked this stat. from our record, then they are correct. in the sense that, our true personal records are false. only in the hospital(some) that your real measurement is taken or considered important. and our hospital record(if only we have) remain private.
at the immigration office the height written in our profiles are random. they take no measurement to get the appropriate height of an individual. (even color of our eyes).
also, in our office files our heights are randomly written. the same thing happens in schools, license office, local government, court, banks, our associations, and during registration of any sort.
therefore, in as much as i personally refute their statistic, with the evidence they have, i cannot prove them wrong.

And how many men did they sample from a potential population of 70 million adults?

They are right,most nigerian men i know are shorter than me,and i am only 6ft tall.

How can Nigeria Male be the shortest in Africa, have you had of Pignis of Congo? they are the shortest in Africa

I very much doubt that the average ghanaian is taller than the average nigerian man.

Oh well.

wikitruth:

I guess it was the Calabar men as a benchmark

hahahahhahaha

though i am not tall but i am taller than this. i dont believe in this statistics, how dd they even research/generate this. mtcheeeeww

I stil think am short, . though am 5ft11 sha

@honeric01 the available becomes the resource material. anybody make up sheet about this country and get away with. we have to put the blame on ourselves. we wait for people to tell us the color of our sheet, b4 it is documented. it took foreigners to write a translatory dictionary in Igbo and other indigenous languages in Nigeria. we cant beat them with opposing fact on this, cos we haven't. it is a challenge for us to know and document basic facets about our lives and surroundings. which is an absolute doddle if we mean to do it.

If you follow the wikipedia link you end up to the data.

The Nigerian data is from a research article and was compiled in Ibadan in the '90s. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/21/11/1836.full.pdf+html

The data covers 875 men and 1,056 women (very limited and since it was Ibadan, not really representative of Nigeria or even Ibadan).

Table 1—Characteristics of the study populations
Nigeria Men
n 875
Age (years) 41.5 ± 12.3
Height (cm) 163.8 ± 9.5
Weight (kg) 61.7 ± 10.8
[/b]Hip (cm) 88.7 ± 9.7
Waist (cm) 77.7 ± 9.2

Nigerian women
n 1,056
Age (years) 40.0 ± 11.3
[b]Height (cm) 157.8 ± 7.4
Weight (kg)  58.0 ± 12.4
Hip (cm) 92.6 ± 11.3
Waist (cm) 75.7 ± 10.2

Nooooo. Thats nt possible. Am sure its a typo or "wikipo". They mean to write "tallest" not shortest.
Lol. I disagree tho.

at least, i'm sure an average nigerian is taller than average ghanaian, both male and female , the list is a total false, shikina

Nigerians are not short

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very wrong stats, i wonder whr he got it from, we r 1 of d tallest if nt d tallest

Bullshit!!!!!

The simplest way to discredit this is to watch any of our soccer matches with other Afrcan nations. Nigerian men are usually of huge frames than most of them especiall Southern Africans!!!!!!

People just come unto the internet to post fake info.

@joe4christ, you didn't have to use that font.

Wow i never knew that nigerians are now shorter than the pigmies in congo long hisssss all these fake statistics sef

LAI LAI! It is not possible. 5'4'' ke? lai lai

am 6 ft 2 in, i used to feel very tall but these days, i don see say height pass height, I have accepted my height as "tall" and not "very tall"
now.

The minimum height for the Nigerian army is 1.68m which is 5ft 6 inches.

If the average height is 5ft 4 then the army will struggle.

The data is wrong as it only includes less than 1000 men and around 1000 women.

LIE LIE LIE, we have some ☺₣ the tallest men in Africa, Ethiopian men are short, much like their marathon runners like Haile, even in Nollywood, the average height is 5ft 6", Ŝ☺ what's their point? Cos i don't agree with it

Wrong statistics. 90% of all the guys I know are above 5feet 7. Infact, no single adult male in my family is less than 6feet 1.

claremont:

The key word in the research is "AVERAGE", it means that the researchers are making conclusions strictly based on the sample size they selected. It doesn't in any way mean that all Nigerians are that short/tall, on the contrary, most Nigerians I work/play with are above 6' tall. An interesting finding all the same, I wouldn't have thought anyone would have bothered to find out the average height of Africans.

First, let's ask for their sample size.

"Avg" means the avg Nigerian man is short. Stop trying to sugar coat it.

Absolute nonsense!

if this is true, then i thank my luck for being taller than my average 9ja man

If Nigerian men are the shortest in the world, what will you say about the Philipinos? whom are little taller than a bottle of multina