Wellness Data & Trends Reports

Self-care & habits

49 minutes less leisure a day for women than men

The Self-Care Time Gap

US women get 49 fewer minutes of leisure a day than men, and do more total work. What the federal time-use data actually shows.

Read the report 4 to 335 days how long habit formation took across the published research

How Long It Takes to Form a Habit

Not 21 days, and not reliably 66. The research range is 4 to 335 days, and the famous figure rests on 39 people.

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Movement & exercise

47.2% of US adults meet the federal aerobic exercise guidelines

Who Actually Meets the Exercise Guidelines

Fewer than half of US adults meet the aerobic guidelines. The sex gap is real, and it is the smallest gap in the data.

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Mental health

21.4% vs 14.8% anxiety symptoms, women against men

Women’s Mental Health Statistics

The anxiety and depression gap between women and men is modest at mild symptoms and, as a ratio, much larger at severe ones.

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Sleep & rest

30.5% of US adults sleep under 7 hours

Sleep Statistics: the Gap Is Quality, Not Quantity

Women and men sleep the same number of hours, but women are 1.5× as likely to struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep.

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Motherhood & caregiving

13.2% of new mothers had postpartum depressive symptoms

Mom Burnout Statistics

The most-quoted maternal burnout figures, each labelled with what it actually measures and how good the sample is.

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Wellness industry

$6.8 trillion the global wellness economy, 2024

What the Wellness Industry Is Actually Worth

The credible wellness market figures, and the widely-quoted ones that differ from each other by 19× for the same year.

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