The Laziest Countries in the World ...

By Neecey • Jul 1, 2015

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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1. Malta - 71.9%

Malta - 71.9%

2. Swaziland – 69.0%

Swaziland – 69.0%

3. Saudi Arabia – 68.8%

Saudi Arabia – 68.8%

4. Serbia – 68.3%

Serbia – 68.3%

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5. Argentina – 68.3%

Argentina – 68.3%

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6. Micronesia – 66.3%

Micronesia – 66.3%

7. Kuwait – 64.5%

Kuwait – 64.5%

8. United Kingdom – 63.3%

United Kingdom – 63.3%

9. United Arab Emirates – 62.5%

United Arab Emirates – 62.5%

10. Malaysia – 61.4%

Malaysia – 61.4%

11. Japan – 60.2%

Japan – 60.2%

12. Dominican Republic – 60.0%

Dominican Republic – 60.0%

13. Namibia – 58.5%

Namibia – 58.5%

14. Iraq – 58.4%

Iraq – 58.4%

15. Turkey – 56.0%

Turkey – 56.0%

16. Cyprus – 55.4%

Cyprus – 55.4%

17. Italy – 54.7%

Italy – 54.7%

18. Ireland – 53.2%

Ireland – 53.2%

19. South Africa – 52.4%

South Africa – 52.4%

20. 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?

Resource
thelancet.com

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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I started laughing when I saw my country .... I don't know why I found it funny 🙈🙈

WTF !!

Um annie, totally uncalled for and untrue.

Where's U.S.A? Don't insult other places before we take a look at ourselves

My country is on here, but we are multi-racial and has one very predominant extremely violent and lazy race!!!!

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

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.

Annie, comments like that are the things that drive people to eating disorders. Think before you speak next time :)

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

Basically half of the world 😒

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