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This is where the tallest and shortest people live
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This is where the tallest and shortest people live
July 31, 2025

This infographic compares the average heights of men and women across the globe, ranking the top 10 tallest and bottom 10 shortest countries. Explore how genetics, nutrition, and socioeconomic factors shape these differences—and which nations have seen the most dramatic changes over time. From towering averages in Northern Europe to shorter statures in parts of Asia and Africa, discover the trends defining human height worldwide.

Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
May 13, 2025

This infographic shows the countries which get their electricity in the most and least carbon-intensive ways.

Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
INFOGRAPHICS
India-China Standoff Sets Precedents in Regional Security
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India-China Standoff Sets Precedents in Regional Security
July 11, 2017

A month-long India-China standoff in the tangled mountains of the Himalayas threatens to snowball into conflict. The circumstances are enveloped in thick fog endemic to those remote mountains at 10000 feet above sea level – and to the complicated India-China relationship…

Conflict Danger Atop the ‘Roof of the World’
July 3, 2017

A recent series of military confrontations between Chinese troops on one side and Indian and Bhutanese troops on the other in a remote tri-border area in the Himalayas threatens to become a wider conflict unless wiser diplomatic heads prevail. With the eclipse of the United States as a major player in international relations, particularly in the Indian subcontinent, it is now up to regional players to avoid old border disputes from growing into a replay of the 1962 Sino-Indian border war.

Conflict Danger Atop the ‘Roof of the World’
World