New Pokémon Sleep study shows that Germans get the most sleep, while Japanese get the least 

A recent survey conducted by The Pokémon Company using data collected from its Pokémon Sleep app revealed interesting differences in how long people in different countries tend to sleep (source: GameBiz).  

The study covered almost a year between July 2023 to June 2024, and used data from around 7 million users across 7 different countries. It revealed that users in Germany slept the most with an average of 7 hours 28 minutes but that users in Japan slept around 6 hours 38 minutes. This means that users in Japan slept 50 minutes less than those in Germany and almost half an hour less than those in Italy.  

Average hours of sleep for the 7 countries:  

1. Germany 7hrs 28mins

2. England 7hrs 21mins  

3. France 7hrs 20mins  

4. Canada 7hrs 19mins  

5. USA 7hrs 14mins  

6. Italy 7hrs 03mins  

7. Japan 6hrs 38mins  
   (Global average 7hrs 11mins) 

The results were calculated using the data from all participants who opted in, whereas the previous study results released in January just used over 300 samples from each country. The latest study gives a more comprehensive picture of people’s average sleeping times. Therefore, it is difficult to compare the two studies directly, although it is interesting to see that Germany was previously number 3, while France was number 1. The average global sleeping time also increased from 6 hours 28 minutes to 7 hours 11 minutes. 

It’s worth noting that sleep time was not calculated from the moment the user hit the “sleep” button up to when they hit “end.” Rather, sleeping time was measured from the first time you fall into deep sleep up until the last time you fall into shallow sleep (prior to waking up). Therefore, if you are one of those people who tries to “cheat” at Pokémon Sleep to gather more dozy Pokémon by not pressing “end” and pretending you slept for longer, you probably won’t negatively affect the results. 

As a side note, they also found from looking at play data in Japan that on hotter days, users tended to take longer to fall asleep. Although Japan has the lowest average sleeping time, it seems many Pokémon Sleep users in the country are committed to using the app. According to the survey data, 60.7% of recent active Pokémon Sleep users in Japan have been using the app almost continuously since it came out in July 2023. 

Pokémon Sleep is free to play on iOS and Android. The app currently has an anniversary event running until July 29 to celebrate one year since its launch.