South Korean seniors sleep about 30 minutes less than the global average, Samsung Health survey reveals - South Korea

Samsung Electronics analyzed the sleep records of users of the health management app ``Samsung Health'' over the past two years and found that the average sleep time worldwide was 6 hours and 59 minutes.
That's down from 7 hours and 3 minutes two years ago, and falls short of the minimum seven hours of sleep recommended by the National Sleep Foundation. The analysis target will be the sleep records of approximately 716 million people.
Sleep efficiency has decreased due to an increase in the amount of time spent waking up in the middle of sleep. In particular, people in their 70s and older were more than twice as likely to fall asleep compared to people in their 20s.
In South Korea, elderly people slept for 6 hours and 30 minutes (390 minutes) per day. This is 33 minutes shorter than the world average of 423 hours.
On the other hand, sleep debt was highest among people in their 20s (49 minutes), which is almost double that of people in their 70s and above (29 minutes).
reach. By region, Latin America has the longest time at 47 minutes. Asia had the shortest time at 41 minutes. It has also been found that people around the world sleep 44 minutes longer on weekends than on weekdays.
The company uses Samsung Health's sleep guidance function ``Sleep Symbol'' to understand sleep trends around the world. Sleep symbols indicate sleep duration, sleep consistency, and awakenings during sleep.
It is divided into 8 types based on As a result of the survey, one out of three people was of the "penguin" type. This has good sleep duration and consistency, but there are many mid-way awakenings and low sleep efficiency. this is the world
This is consistent with the trend of decreased sleep efficiency.