How well do people from different countries around the world sleep?

4/27/2018

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Society Story: How well do people from different countries around the world sleep?

Do you know where in the world people get the best - and the worst - sleep? A survey recently conducted by the popular mobile app "Sleep Cycle" revealed the sleeping habits of different countries. Let's take a look!

How much sleep do we need to stay healthy?

Society Story: 6-9 hours of sleep — shutterstock

An adult needs to sleep for 7-9 hours per night to stay healthy. Anyway, an individual's healthy sleep pattern depends on genetics and lifestyle. Even 6 hours of sleep can be enough for some people. As we get older, we need less sleep. To stay healthy, people aged 65 and above should sleep approximately 1 hour less than they used to.

Where do people sleep the most?

Society Story: New Zealand, 7:30 hours of sleep — shutterstock

Most New Zealanders go to bed at 11:30 PM at wake up at 7 in the morning.

Which country sleeps the least?

Society Story: Japan, 5 hours 50 minutes of sleep — shutterstock

The Japanese also wake up at 7 AM, but they go to bed only at 12:50 AM.

Where do the earliest risers live?

Society Story: South Africa, 6:24 AM — shutterstock

The citizens of South Africa are the earliest risers, anyway, most of them manage to get 7 hours of sleep per night.

Where do people get up late in the morning?

Society Story: Greece, 8:45 AM — shutterstock

Even on weekdays, the Greeks prefer to stay in bed for a little longer than the rest of the world. On average, they go to bed at 1 AM.

The quality of sleep

The quality of sleep depends not only on its duration. If your sleep is interrupted all the time, your body doesn't recover properly. The time you get up and go to bed also plays an important role, as well as your level of physical activity during the day. Among the countries surveyed, Slovaks have the best sleep quality.

Best wake-up mood

Society Story: Middle East wake up in the best mood on Thursday — shutterstock

People from the Middle East, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia sleep latest on Thursdays.

The users from the Western world are the happiest at the end of the week:

But it seems clear that...

Society Story: The majority of people around the world wake up the happiest on Saturdays — shutterstock

Nearly 90% of the countries surveyed sleep late on Saturdays and wake up in the best mood. What about you?

How well do Americans sleep?

The USA ranks the 48th in the world sleep quality ranking.

How well do you sleep? Sleeping habits of which country surprised you the most? Do you have any specific sleep pattern?

What would you like to add? We are waiting for your comments!

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What are your thoughts on this subject?

39 Comments

Elisabeth Koechli

The hours BEFORE midnight are the best!

Leticia Olsen

😴Young or old we need to sleep according to what we need. Sleeping is like charging battery. Some battery are fully consumed, so it needs a bit longer to fully charged.

Jacqui Halvorson

Anywhere in the world, people with CATS average 5.44 hours of sleep most nights!!😽🤣

Elsy O. Stromberg

vasily tchaikovsky, The Japanese.

Barry Crews

osenm, the beauty of retirement...

Barry Crews

Bob Anstee, only one real focus on these pages...

konrad

You are right about sleeping less when we get older. I have a singular pattenr, since I usually go to bet late, at 3 a.m. and wake up around 11.

Bob Anstee

UK wasn't ranked?

Cheryl McMeekin

All very interesting

Ronald Cossin

4 to 6 hours in 24 hours … The Army did this to me over the years in … I'm use to it …

osenm

I am guilty of not handling sleeping schedules as I should. Take too long of an afternoon nap. Wake up at 3 AM and grab my Kindle; read until I can't stay awake any longer than doze off for a few more hours.

Tom Topping

My Mrs can sleep the clock around and wake up wondering why I’m disturbing her⏱

L Lh Adams

I've always woken up at 4:00 AM,even though I sometimes went to sleep at 2:00 AM.

Luis Perez

Good trivia

Douglas Oaten

As for me, I have to wait for my upstairs neighbors to stop throwing furniture (and sometimes I think it is a safe) on the floor and dragging it around And I am up and about by 6:30 because I have to work - even though I have a home office

Douglas Oaten

The main reason for people in those Middle East countries to wake up in a better mood on Thursday is exactly the same as for people in the West to wake up happy on Friday: Thursday and Friday are respectively the last working day in the week :)