In which country do we sleep the most, which has the most athletic inhabitants? Fitbit unveils its figures for 2021

But where are the French ?! At least they’re not among those who sleep the most. The same cannot be said of the Belgians.

More and more “Earthlings” wear bracelets and connected watches, devices designed to track their daily step count, measure their heart rate night and day, scrutinize the duration and quality of sleep, or more prosaically listen to their snoring. . If individually all these measures can encourage to keep in shape and are likely to give an overview of his state of health, on a larger scale and from a certain duration, they can possibly teach us about our lifestyles. , or even outright identify trends depending on the country.

In any case, that’s what Fitbit thinks. The company carried out an assessment based on aggregated and anonymized data of users of its products, over the period from 1^er January 2021 to December 28, 2021 (if you are one of these anonymous people, be reassured, your three days of excess at the end of the year have not been counted; here at least!).

Fitbit doesn’t say how many people wore one of its watches or bracelets in 2021, but as a guide, last year a map of global sports activity provided by the American brand relied on on data collected from approximately 30 million individuals.

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In all, they took 46 trillion (trillion) steps and covered 22 billion miles (roughly 35.4 billion kilometers) using both legs.

At the question ” where do we walk the most? “, The pilgrim would be tempted to answer” in the largest countries “; the city-dweller “ where there is the least public transport “; the LREM member, ” in my party “. All would be wrong. Fitbit responds, in order: ” in Hong-Kong, in Ireland, in Switzerland, in Spain then in Sweden “.

The Belgians, the third heaviest sleepers

Some walk a lot, others sleep a lot. The Irish do both, we just hope for them it’s not at the same time. Anyway, the second biggest walkers, the Irish are also the second biggest sleepers. In this area, only the Finns beat them. Our Belgian, Dutch and New Zealand friends also seem to appreciate this apparent non-activity.

Well, in concrete terms, Fitbit users as a whole are not very heavy sleepers: they bask on average 6 hours and 30 minutes daily. Usually they will go to bed at 11-18 minutes and wake up at 7-3 minutes.

The Italians, champions of the FRC

On a whole different note, the Fitbit data seems to reveal a surprising trend: people in northern Europe apparently have lower resting heart rates than those in other countries around the world. Indeed, at rest, the hearts of Finns, Norwegians and Swedes beat at a slower-than-average rate.

Instinctively, one could foolishly suspect the impact of temperatures. Only at the top of this ranking of appeased hearts, we find… the Italians, whose country is not quite in Fennoscandia and is not particularly cold either. Besides, the throbbing of the Dutch would also be rather quiet; in any case when he is at rest, a state of which we do not know the daily duration each time, which would perhaps be the true justice of the peace. This is still good news for residents of these countries, given that according to Fitbit, “ HRF can be an important indicator of fitness level and overall cardiovascular health “.

Based on these explanations, one would expect these five regions to also appear in the ranking of those whose users have the most time spent in AZM (Active Zones Minutes). However, this is the case for only two of them, Sweden and the Netherlands. The prize goes to the Swiss, who are obviously very active; Ireland and the United Kingdom complete this Top 5.

There you go, it’s over. And inevitably, our patriotism takes a hit: you will have noticed it, or you may look for it, the French do not appear in any of these rankings. So, Fitbit users in France and Overseas, agree, walk, move or sleep, but please, stand out in 2022!

Source: Fitbit