Laziest Countries in the World

The medical journal The Lancet ranked 122 countries based on inactivity.

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A massive 63.3 per cent of the UK population was found to be inactive, making it the eighth laziest country out of the 122 ranked.

 

Britain has been classed as one of the laziest countries in the world (Pic: Thinkstock)

Meanwhile, Greece was seen to be the least lazy country in the study, with just 15 per cent of its people being inactive, the Daily Mail reports.

Across the pond, the US is a lot less lazy than Brits may believe, coming 46th laziest.

People were classed as inactive if they did not get around 2.5 hours of moderate activity per week.

Malta was given the top spot for idleness, with 71.9 per cent of citizens classed as inactive, with Swaziland (69 per cent) and Saudi Arabia (68.8 per cent) rounding out the top three.

The top 20 laziest countries are:

1) Malta

2)Swaziland

3)Saudi Arabia

4)Serbia

5)Argentina

6)Micronesia

7)Kuwait

8)Great Britain

9)United Arab Emirates

10)Malaysia

11)Japan

12)Dominican Republic

13)Namibia

14)Iraq

15)Turkey

16)Cyprus

17)Italy

18)Ireland

19)South Africa

20)Bhutan

The U.S ranked 46th and Greece was last. Who knows how accurate this is, but the potential false correlation that Greece's financial woes = laziest, when they are apparently least lazy, is interesting.

http://www.metro.co....aturing-britain

we are probably less lazy because we have a retarded sense of work ethic, even if its completely destructive to a healthy lifestyle.

free healthcare might contribute to the stats, about all lazy people do in this country is visit their GP in the hope of getting disability benefit. assuming these stats use medical records, i dunno.

GOD DAMMNIT SWAZILAND !!

can't be arsed to read and stuff, but is laziest defined by productivity, lack of employment, or truly just "sitting around on your arse"?

  On 8/7/2012 at 6:24 AM, lumpenprol said:

can't be arsed to read and stuff

lol

I'm starting to think this survey is a bunch of crap... but I think it measured physical activity... so places that have shit weather and stuff are gonna have more inactive people cause who's gonna go joggin in 5 feet of snow etc.. also cites women in Saudi Arabia as an example because women don't typically work as much. You'd think America being the most overweight nation would = laziest in that regard, but I think health problems in America deal more with our diet than how much we work out.

Swaziland? More like Laziland LOLol!!1!!11!!!1

Per wikipedia, 75% of Swaziland's citizens are "engaged in subsistence farming." Sedentary bastards.

I guess that last quarter are just lying around dying of AIDS

  On 8/7/2012 at 6:50 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Swaziland? More like Laziland LOLol!!1!!11!!!1

*high five*

Japan 11th? I thought they worked themselves to death over there.

does everyone in Swaziland look like Patrick Swayze?

does everyone on Malta look like Chris Malta?

  On 8/7/2012 at 6:31 AM, compson said:

I'm starting to think this survey is a bunch of crap... but I think it measured physical activity... so places that have shit weather and stuff are gonna have more inactive people cause who's gonna go joggin in 5 feet of snow etc.. also cites women in Saudi Arabia as an example because women don't typically work as much. You'd think America being the most overweight nation would = laziest in that regard, but I think health problems in America deal more with our diet than how much we work out.

Bingo! :)

All my illusions about Jamaican lifestyle, broken into a hundred pieces

  On 8/7/2012 at 3:30 AM, compson said:

the potential false correlation that Greece's financial woes = laziest, when they are apparently least lazy, is interesting.

physical inactivity and financial collapse are not the same thing. what are you saying?

So what exactly is 'moderate activity'?

That could be anything.

  On 8/7/2012 at 1:10 PM, essines said:

  On 8/7/2012 at 3:30 AM, compson said:

the potential false correlation that Greece's financial woes = laziest, when they are apparently least lazy, is interesting.

 

 

physical inactivity and financial collapse are not the same thing. what are you saying?

lol

Hakuna Matata

  On 8/7/2012 at 1:14 PM, spratters said:

So what exactly is 'moderate activity'?

 

That could be anything.

it's exactly what you're thinking it is, tiger

  On 8/7/2012 at 9:19 AM, Npoess said:

Japan 11th? I thought they worked themselves to death over there.

I guess that's really limited to certain students and your quintessential salaryman. The rest must have time - someone's got to read all those Gundam manga series, trudge through RPGs, buy high-end electronics, mod cars for drift racing, watch all the eclectic porn, etc. Nerdy American high schoolers can only make-up so much of those markets.

  On 8/10/2012 at 2:05 AM, joshuatx said:

  On 8/7/2012 at 9:19 AM, Npoess said:

Japan 11th? I thought they worked themselves to death over there.

 

I guess that's really limited to certain students and your quintessential salaryman. The rest must have time - someone's got to read all those Gundam manga series, trudge through RPGs, buy high-end electronics, mod cars for drift racing, watch all the eclectic porn, etc. Nerdy American high schoolers can only make-up so much of those markets.

When the US isn't on your list you know something is wrong with your measurement system.

Saudi should be higher, they are beyond lazy. Everything stops 5 times a day for prayer, sometimes people don't even go back to work, and prayer time can stretch for a couple hours w transportation, foot washing, an after prayer cigarette, etc etc.

They import immigrant labor for anything remotely demeaning or manual. Very racist as well.

  On 8/10/2012 at 2:36 PM, chassis said:

When the US isn't on your list you know something is wrong with your measurement system.