New research reveals how humans around the world spend their time on an average day. Everyone has 24 hours per day. Multiplied by the world's population of 8 billion, this amounts to roughly 190 billion human hours every day. The way we allocate these hours influences our environment and shapes our
Researchers conducted a comprehensive study to understand how people across the globe allocate their time. Analyzing data from 2000-2019 and covering 87% of the world’s population, the study revealed that human-centered activities dominate daily time allocation, while just 2.6 hours per day are dedicated to economic activities, suggesting potential for shifts in time spent on certain tasks.Everyone has 24 hours per day.
To find out, the research team looked at time use and labor data gathered for the period from 2000-2019 from over 140 countries .Activities and their desired outcomes The researchers found that the single largest chunk of time goes towards activities that are human-centered – a little more than 9 hours. Sleep or being in bed accounts for an additional 9 hours . Of the remaining 6 hours, growing and collecting our food, preparing it, commuting and moving around, and allocational tasks each occupy around 1 hour. Waste management accounted for just 1 minute of the global day, in stark contrast to the 45 minutes spent tidying and maintaining our dwellings.
Surprisingly, time spent on activities like meals, daily travel, hygiene and grooming, and food preparation doesn’t change in a systematic way with the material wealth of a population. In contrast, the time spent growing and collecting food varied strongly with wealth, from over 1 hour in low-income countries to less than 5 minutes in high-income countries.
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