Which countries get the best night's sleep?

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Published 2023-12-21

Sleep patterns differ across the world. From early-to-bed South Africans to Russians who hit the sack around midnight, we reveal the cultural nuances that shape global sleep schedules. Watch the film to find out where your country ranks in the lie-in-dex, and why it matters.

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All Comments (21)

@fortune_roses 4 months ago

Those people who get by on only 4-5 hours of sleep every day: you're destroying your health without even knowing it
@spacetweek 4 months ago

Two weeks of 6-hour nights? When we had a kid, I had 3 years of 6 hour nights, but awake for 1-2 hours in between two sleep blocks of 3 hours. My brain was mush after it.
@udayviruppal3730 4 months ago

In india, it is not about any work culture . It's about transportation bottlenecks and a culture of govt job preparations. In cities like Mumbai, you leave early at 5-6 am to catch the local train, reach office at 9 , work till 5-6pm , reach back home at 9-10pm , go back to sleep at 12-1am to get up again at 4am .
@nwgverified 4 months ago

How hard is to make a graph with the amount of hours/minutes, i wanna see the rankings not have to do a calculation for sleep time and wake time for each country.
@houseplant1016 4 months ago

I sleep 12 hours a day
@Munchausenification 4 months ago

pretty cool im watching this while staying up for 22 hours so far and probably will be staying up for another 5.
@___alessandro.337 4 months ago

As a Brazilian who sleeps on average 6 hours a night, I see this as a victory :))
@bobiq 4 months ago

Also the time zone that is too much too the west or to the east affects time to bed
@SimeVidas 4 months ago

Usually I wake up for the third time after a total of 6 and a half hours of sleep, and that’s when I call it quits. Not great, not terrible.
@amirk257 3 months ago

So many misinformation, Like she said sleeping 7hrs is so perfect, however sleeping 6hrs is equal to pulling 2 consecutive all nighter, like that 1 hour difference had such huge impact
@andressixto4699 4 months ago

The song is Sleep On It - Shy Cookie and DJ Luck
@bob_the_bomb4508 4 months ago

Lao PDR. Even their currency is called the ‘Kip’.
@---yn3bv 3 months ago

I am watching this at 01:55 am from ZA.
@jobloluther 4 months ago

i sleep 9-10 hours
@ryanlutz1216 3 months ago

Watching this from bed. Guess it’s time to sleep. Goodnight!
@jarvis547 4 months ago

Share to narayan murti...bol rha tha 70hrs a week...yaha 48hrs krke ye haal hai...
@adike5 3 months ago

11-7
@Rosa-pq3mg 2 months ago

to be honest, that is normal in Asian that have 6 hour of sleep. You will be consider a hard-working people when you doing that at night
@333BellaLee 4 months ago

Asian countries eat a high carbohydrate diet. Noodles and rice. Whereas Western countries eat a more high fat and meat diet. Eat ketovore, the proper human diet.
@Qlorck 4 months ago

a solid 7 hours? 7 hours is not enough btw