{"id":6361,"date":"2022-03-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-sleep-7-hours-on-average-in-a-24-hour-period-by-sex-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/03\/11\/6361\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Sleep &lt;7 Hours on Average in a 24-Hour Period,\u00a0by Sex and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7110a6-F.gif?_=36355\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"304\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, 28.3% of men and 27.2% of women aged \u226518 years slept &lt;7 hours on average within a 24-hour period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among persons aged 18\u201344 years, men (28.8%) were more likely to sleep &lt;7 hours compared with women (25.6%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among adults aged 45\u201364 years, the percentage was similar for men (31.1%) and women (30.7%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, among those aged \u226565 years, women (25.5%) were more likely than men (22.6%) to sleep &lt;7 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7110a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7110a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, 28.3% of men and 27.2% of women aged \u226518 years slept &lt;7 hours on average within a 24-hour period. Among persons aged 18\u201344 years, men (28.8%) were more likely to sleep &lt;7 hours compared with women (25.6%). Among adults aged 45\u201364 years, the percentage was similar for men (31.1%) and women (30.7%). However, among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752,11906],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}