Sleep Cycle Institute 10-Year Anniversary Report: Each Year, Americans Are Picking Up an Extra Minute of Sleep

New Report Reveals What 300 Million Nights of Sleep Tracking Can Tell Us About How We Sleep and How Our Sleeping Habits Change as We Age GOTHENBURG, Sweden, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In honor of its 10th anniversary as the world’s first and most popular smart alarm clock app, Sleep Cycle has today released its third Sleep Cycle Institute report. This report includes more than 302 million nights’ worth of sleep data for more than 4.3 million Sleep Cycle users in the U.S. and abroad. The report analyzes how our sleep patterns have collectively shifted in the last five years and how individual sleep patterns change as people move through different phases of life. Sleep Cycle Institute experts also shared what they have learned in the past decade. We’re Sleeping More and Better — But We’re Waking Up Grumpier Taken as a whole, adults worldwide have been gaining about a minute of extra sleep each year. There have also been small, consistent gains in sleep quality. Strangely, this has not translated into better wake-up moods: 2015 2019* Average time spent in bed: 7hrs 13mins 7hrs 17mins Average sleep quality: 72.6% 74.7% Average wake-up mood: 60.2% 59% By age demographic, women ages 55-74 saw the largest gains in total average sleep time (six minutes), while men ages 55-74 saw the smallest (two minutes). Men ages 18-34 saw the largest gain in sleep quality (2.7%), while men ages 55-74 saw the smallest (1.5%). Meanwhile, it was also men ages 55-74 who saw the most dramatic decrease in their wake-up mood (down 3%), while women ages 18-34 saw the least dramatic decrease (down 0.6%). *2019 data is only available for the months of January through April, so values may change by the year’s end. However, data from previous years suggests that […]

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