A recent report published by The Food Foundation found that UK children are becoming shorter, fatter and sicker at an alarming rate. The average height of 5-year-olds has been falling since 2013. UK children are now shorter than children in nearly all high-income countries.
The report based its findings on data gathered from a wide variety of sources, including The National Child Measurement Programme, the Royal College of Physicians and Child Health, and the Office for National Statistics. The data showed that in 2010, the average height of 5-year-olds in the UK was 112.63 cm. By 2020, this had fallen to 111.57 cm. In that same year, the average height of 5-year-olds was 115.09 cm in Germany, 113.79 in the USA and 113.76 cm in France.
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