University of Copenhagen - Urological Research Center and Andrology 2015, is there a source from this time and from this instituion that concluded that denmark had average penis girth of 5.22 inches?
Executive summary
A careful review of the 2015 literature shows a widely cited systematic review in BJU International (Veale et al., 2015) that pooled measurements from 15,521 men and reported average girth values of about 9.31 cm (3.66 in) flaccid and 11.66 cm (4.59 in) erect, but there is no evidence in the available reporting that the University of Copenhagen’s Urological Research Center and Andrology published a 2015 study concluding Denmark had an average penis girth of 5.22 inches (13.26 cm) [1] [2] [3]. Claims tying a 5.22-inch Danish average to a 2015 Copenhagen source are not supported by the documented peer‑reviewed literature surfaced in these sources [4] [5].
1. The actual 2015 meta‑analysis and its headline numbers
The most-cited 2015 paper is a systematic review that pooled data from 17–20 prior studies totaling about 15,521 men and presented nomograms for length and girth: average flaccid girth ≈ 9.31 cm (3.66 in) and average erect girth ≈ 11.66 cm (4.59 in) (Veale et al., BJU Int., 2015); mainstream press and science outlets repeated those figures at the time [1] [2] [6] [3].
2. No trace of a University of Copenhagen 2015 finding of 5.22 inches
The sources collected here identify the Veale-led BJU International review (Institute of Psychiatry/King’s College affiliations) as the primary 2015 synthesis and do not list a University of Copenhagen Urological Research Center and Andrology study reporting a 5.22‑inch girth for Denmark in 2015; the institutional authorship in the documented 2015 work is not Copenhagen-based [4] [1] [2]. Absent primary-source citation or an indexed PubMed entry tying that specific figure to Copenhagen, asserting such a provenance would be unsupported by the referenced literature [4] [1].
3. Where the 5.22‑inch number might come from — confusion, conversion, or misattribution
The discrepancy could stem from unit conversion errors, conflation of length and circumference, or misreading of pooled international averages as national figures: the 2015 pooled erect length was ~13.12 cm (5.17 in) while erect girth was 11.66 cm (4.59 in), and a careless swap of length and circumference or mistaken conversion could create a spurious 13.26 cm (5.22 in) figure; however, the assembled sources do not document any Copenhagen study producing 13.26 cm as a national Danish mean in 2015 [7] [6] [3].
4. Regional and later analyses show geographic variation but not a Copenhagen 2015 confirmation
More recent meta‑analyses and regional studies document variation across WHO regions and temporal trends in penile measurements, indicating legitimate geographic differences and evolving datasets, but these later works (and the 2015 pooled analysis) still do not substantiate a Copenhagen 2015 claim that Denmark’s average girth was 5.22 inches; indeed, the 2015 pooled data remain the main benchmark cited by press and science coverage [8] [9] [5].
5. Conclusion and limits of available evidence
Concisely: there is no corroborated source in the supplied reporting that a 2015 University of Copenhagen Urological Research Center and Andrology study concluded Denmark had an average penis girth of 5.22 inches; the best-documented 2015 synthesis reports an average erect girth near 11.66 cm (4.59 in) and attributes the work to Veale et al. with affiliations that are not Copenhagen [1] [2] [3]. If a specific Copenhagen report exists outside the indexed and cited literature provided here, it was not present in these sources, and that absence should caution against repeating the Copenhagen/5.22‑inch attribution without a verifiable primary citation [4] [1].