The Laziest Countries in the World ...

The highly respected medical journal, The Lancet, published a report following a study into the laziest countries in the world. Health is a major issue all over the world – some of it due to limiting socio-economic factors, some due to lifestyle choices. It is recommended that we should do at least 2.5 hours of moderate exercise every week. It seems many people are not achieving that. Here are, according to the aforementioned study, the Laziest Countries in the World.
The percentage represents how much of the adult population is inactive

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Malta - 71.9%

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Swaziland – 69.0%

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Saudi Arabia – 68.8%

Serbia – 68.3%

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Argentina – 68.3%

Micronesia – 66.3%

Kuwait – 64.5%

United Kingdom – 63.3%

United Arab Emirates – 62.5%

Malaysia – 61.4%

Japan – 60.2%

Dominican Republic – 60.0%

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Namibia – 58.5%

Iraq – 58.4%

Turkey – 56.0%

Cyprus – 55.4%

Italy – 54.7%

Ireland – 53.2%

South Africa – 52.4%

Bhutan – 52.3%

Bhutan – 52.3% I think it’s an interesting list. Is your home country on here? Do you buck the inactive trend?

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Addendum
3 years ago, at the time of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, The Lancet launched a series on the worldwide pandemic of physical inactivity.1 The Series showed that a third of adults and 80% of adolescents around the world do not reach recommended levels for daily physical activity (30 min and 60 min of physical activity of moderate-to-vigorous intensity per day for adults and adolescents, respectively).2 Physical inactivity was shown to be responsible for 5·3 million deaths per year worldwide.

They studied 122 countries to develop the results stated above.

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Basically half of the world 😒

I'm surprised the U.S.A. Isn't on this list

I don't think japan should be in this list. Maybe person who wrote this should come to japan and observe.

What happened to USA they're all obese as fuck

I would suggest changing the headline to "the least physical active countries in the world" that way it is less insulting and misleading!

Ireland here 👋

Neecey, I know from past experience how sensitive you are to diversity in culture, race, ethnicity, sex and gender, there was no intention to insult any particular country. And obviously this list is not intended as a serious analysis of world-wide "laziness", it would be informative to know just what criteria the Lancet was using to measure "activity". Since the list is dominated by countries outside the sphere of western culture, I would guess there is some bias toward a western standard of activity, and that may not be fair to many of the countries and cultures included on this list.

I am from the UK and the amount of unfit obese people I have seen is sad. However there are hoof mount of healthy people but there is a lot of obese people milling about which is really depressing. It is also the lifestyle many people finish work late and the last place they want to do is visit the gym. Some people don't even want to walk either. So yes but hopefully things will change .

Um annie, totally uncalled for and untrue.

Lol have you checked Greece ..why do you think there's a crisis ? Because people don't work enough..

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