Average Sleep Time

National Sleep Foundation guidelines 1 advise that healthy adults need between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night.

Average sleep time. As of 2016 Chinese women spent 540. Scientific American REM Sleep constitutes of 20 of our total sleep time while the remaining 80 are non-REM sleep stages. Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey.

Thats just over 30 minutes shy of the general recommendation that adults should aim for seven to nine hours of slumber a night. The middle 50 of all WHOOP members average the following per night. In fact theyre getting troublingly little sleep.

It takes on average about 90 minutes to go through each cycle. However if you are dragging your feet and need to drink caffeine to keep you going more sleep is recommended. Email protected WASHINGTON DC February 2 2015The National Sleep Foundation NSF along with a multi-disciplinary expert panel issued its new recommendations for appropriate sleep durationsThe report recommends wider appropriate sleep ranges for most age groups.

In addition to age other factors can affect how many hours of sleep you need. Average sleep times per day by age and sex 98 92 87 86 82 83 89 98 94 89 86 85 85 88 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 15-19 years 20-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65 years Average hours per day Men Women SOURCE. Methodology and results summary.

1 Uncommonly adults may fall into two categories. Most experts recommend that adults get at least 7 hours of sleep per night. The results are published in Sleep Health.

This statistic provides a comparison of the average amount of time spent sleeping by gender in OECD member countries as well as China India and South Africa. A short sleeper can be alright with getting less than the average recommended hours of sleep less than seven hours. In todays fast-paced society six or seven hours of sleep may sound pretty good.