A composite image of the world's most typical person - a 28-year-old Han Chinese man. Photo: National Geographic
This is the face of the world's most typical person, a composite image created by National Geographic researchers from 190,000 photographs.
A study into the world's population coordinated by the group has determined a right-handed Chinese man of the Han ethnic group is the most common human on the planet.
The National Geographic survey, based on the seven billion people in the world, has uncovered some other interesting facts about our current population:
• less than 25 per cent of people have a bank account;
• males just outnumber females;
• the median age of people is 28;
Although the world's most typical ethniticity is Chinese, it won't be for long. By 2030, the Indian population is due to overshadow China's.
Other fun facts:
• The typical man in Holland is five foot, 11 inches, compared to Peru where the norm is five foot, four inches;
• Japanese women typically live to the ripe old age of 86, unlike Afghani women who typically die at 45.
• Americans are the big water guzzlers, consuming 380 litres of a water in a home a day, when Ethiopians travel eight hours a day to use nine litres of water.
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