Irish people sleep more during the week than anyone else, study finds

The participants in the study used sleep monitoring devices and the study involved more than 50 million sleep nights. Overall it found that people in Asia slept less, by about 45 minutes, than people elsewhere. The study focused on Europe, Asia, Oceania and North America, but also included participants from South Africa and the Gulf.

New Zealand, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Finland came after Ireland, in that order, for total sleep time during the week, with people in India, Singapore, South Korea and Japan sleeping the least, Japan being the country where people slept the least. In general, people in western Europe, who tended to sleep more than people elsewhere during the week, were also found to have a great extended sleep at the weekends.

“A recent large-scale analysis of mortality in Japan, China, Singapore and Korea has shown that a sleep duration of 7 hours is associated with the lowest mortality risk, with both shorter and longer sleep associated with elevated risk,” the authors said.

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