Less Sleep, More Work Hours
It has been estimated that sleep deprivation costs the Japanese economy more 30 trillion US dollars a year, and some newly released survey results show that this figure could be on the increase:
The amount of sleep people in Japan get has been falling among both men and women ever since the first survey was conducted in 1986.
People aged between 45 and 49 got the least amount of sleep, with the average standing at 7 hours, 5 minutes a night. Next was a group of people aged between 40 and 44, who got an average of 7 hours, night minutes sleep each night.
Sleeping the longest was the group of people aged 85 or over, who got 9 hours, 47 minutes of shut-eye on average.
The survey also showed that working hours were increasing. Up until 2001, the amount of time people spent working had fallen, but a turnabout was subsequently seen with an increase in 2006, when the latest survey was conducted.
Anyone got a guess on how much of the recorded sleep took place on trains?
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Non, since they only measured bed time, not naps in the train.
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People aged between 45 and 49 got the least amount of sleep, with the average standing at 7 hours, 5 minutes a night.
7 hours and 5 minutes? Sounds like the lap o’ luxury to me!!
–49 yr old in Japan, with a job, a wife, a kid, and a dog…
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Maybe they’d get more sleep if they laid down instead?
Oh, and these figures are pretty worthless without a male/female split or a full-time/public servant/part-time split, etc. It says full-time workers did an average of 7 hours 11 minutes work, but the standard work day at my employer is 7 hours 45 minutes, for example.
And I manage 5 and a half hours if I’m lucky.
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I get a headache if I sleep more than 8 hours.
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I need a good ten hours myself. Too bad I’ve been averaging 6.5 for the last two months.
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That’s NOTHING compared to the US. I’m 13 years old, a tenth grader, and sleep approx 4 hours on a school night, and, if lucky, 7 hours on the weekend. Who do they think they are? Do they think that human beings should sleep at least 9 hours or something?
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Are you kidding me with 4 hours a night for the kid in high school? Where are your parents and why are they not forcing you to go to bed at a reasonable time?
That said, I get around 6-7 hours a night because that’s all I need to get through the week. Much more on the weekends though.
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