This is the paper the article and graphic are based on:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230555
It’s using a survey from mainland China.
Welp, seems like im an exception to this rule. 197 cm tall, 0 income.
Shorter people tend to live longer though and have fewer cardiovascular disease risks as well as cancer.
It’s primarily because they have lower blood pressure in general which leads to less risk to cardiovascular disease. Shorter body takes less pressure to pump blood to the head. The cancer thing is because smaller bodies have fewer cells. Fewer cells, less of a chance one of them malfunctions and turns into cancer.
So you show your inches at the first interview or is it more of an annual review type of situation?
It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.
