Which country sleeps the least?

THE hours of sleep, nutrition and physical activity They are variables that are measured all over the world because they influence the quality of life and provide data to calculate the degree of longevity of the population.

What do the hours of sleep of a given population depend on? Much depends on sunlight and, consequently, on climate and temperature.

But it is also related to predominant type of work (services, industry, agriculture) and purchasing power, and is not independent of the calories consumed.

Once these and other variables have been crossed, such as genetic and cultural ones, for example, You can understand why some regions sleep more than others.

It is interesting to know that everything is measured and recorded, that data speaks and that it can be organized to evaluate, compare and even plan. Public productivity and economic policies. An example of this is the advances and delays of timetables in some countries to save energy and increase productivity.

Countries that sleep less than others

The dream map of the world is the result of these statistics. The Computer Today site On its website it shows that, according to sleep laboratories, people do not sleep the same way around the world.

We will not delay the response. Japan is the country that sleeps the least in the worldso he says the Infosalus website and many others.

The Japanese sleep on average 6.14 hours a day, the South Koreans 6.25. Asians generally do not reach 7 hours (the minimum recommended by medicine), a figure that is only reached China. A lack that many specialists attribute to the overcrowded and noisy cities of these Asian countries.

The Japanese figure becomes eloquent if we compare it with people’s sleep of over 7 hours. Europeansexcept for Türkiye. Finland, Holland, United Kingdom and Ireland exceeding 7 and a half hours. To complete the European map: Spain sleeps on average 7.13 hours a day; Italy 7.09 and France 7.29.

Crossing the Atlantic, it was recorded Americans sleep an average of 7.19 hours a dayeven though both in Hawaii (full west, in the Pacific Ocean) and in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, in the eastern part of the United States, people sleep less than the average for the country.

Sleeping 7 hours is the recommended minimum

The Computer Today site refers to the cinematic scenes of nodding that Japanese people do on public transport and calling “inemuri” (sleeping in public), a kind of nap in a sitting position with arms crossed, dozing but being careful not to overdo it.

The Japanese gave it a name, but we see their attitude workers from all over the world who return home after entering the factory at 5 in the morning.

These are average numbers that include babies who sleep a lot more and elderly people who sleep less. But the world average coincides with the recommendations of health professionals.

Sleeping 7 hours a day is the recommended minimum. But children and adolescents need 8 hours of sleep to accumulate the energy that is burned by the growth and development of bones and organs.

Sleeping well is a pillar of health.