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%

Swaziland – 69.0%

Saudi Arabia – 68.8%

Serbia – 68.3%

Argentina – 68.3%

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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%

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Italy – 54.7%

Ireland – 53.2%

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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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On what basis? Very weird

Love the pic, looks like a place I want to be

Lol @ the comments below. Although it was a bit tricky to label these countries as the "Laziest in the World", it's an interesting scientific study that should be addressed. I'm not personally offended by someone calling my country lazy. It's a nothing more than a generalization.

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 .

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

I'm really surprised Ireland is on here

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

I think Lazy is the wrong word. A big reason for not getting enough exercise is working too hard.

Um annie, totally uncalled for and untrue.

I disagree with Japan, that is the leading country in Research & Development. Beautiful photos, though.

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