You need to get hold of something like 'bodyspace' by S Pheasant; try an inter-library loan.
It contains data for several UK and non-UK populations.

LB

PS - it's 'anthropometry'.

Take a look at Loughborough University's excellenct website openerg.com. It's a fantastic resource for anthropometric data, their DSE section is fantastic - the self assessment is the best I've seen. And it's all free!

If you don't know this site, take a look. You'll be glad you did.

Ian

I should have added that the whole purpose of the data collected by Steve is to illustrate how INVALID and practically useless almost all 'average' measures of human bodies are.

His data range from the fifth to ninety-fifth percentiles of males and females, under and over 18, in British and other populations.

During my training with HSE in the late 1970s when BS 5304 "Safeguarding of machinery" was the main general document used by inspectors (having been largely compiled by HM Factory Inspectorate, HSE's main predecessor, for the British Standards Institution), we were told that its content about permitted widths/sizes of apertures in guards in relation to distances from dangerous parts of machinery was not absolute. A classic example of this related to the fact that accident investigations had found that some young Asian women had fingers which were both longer and more slender than those of most women. I don't have ready access to detailed information about guarding standards, so can't advise if BS 5304 or its successors were suitably amended to take this fact into account.