India is the second most sleep-deprived country after Japan, revealed a recent Fitbit report. It found that Indians get an average night sleep of just 7 hours and 1 minute. The Japanese sleep for an even lesser period, with an average of only 6 hours and 47 minutes.
Fitbit’s report is based on aggregated and anonymized data from 18 countries across the world including India, Japan, the U.S., the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, and Singapore, among others.
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The report highlighted that Indians got an average Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep of just 77 minutes, which is the same as the Japanese. This is the lowest figure in the world, which is a worrying sign. REM sleep is very important for an individual’s health and helps regulate multiple processes in the body.
India is also the least active country according to the report. It revealed that Indians walked just 6533 steps on an average, which was less than all the 18 other countries mentioned in the report.
Ireland got the best amount of sleep at night, with an average of 7 hours and 57 minutes. Hong Kong was the most active country, clocking 10133 steps daily, on an average.
The insights were aggregated from anonymized Fitbit users between August 1, 2018, and July 31, 2019. The company didn’t reveal the sample size of the study but it could be pretty large since Fitbit has over 27 million active users worldwide. However, Fitbit clarified that not all active users were part of this sample.
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