The laziest 20 nations in the world have today been named and shamed in a major new report of exercise levels across the globe.
Kuwait has the lowest levels of physical activity – with 67 per cent of its population failing to hit recommended targets.
At the other end of the scale, just 5.5 per cent of people in Uganda don’t do enough exercise to keep themselves healthy.
The findings, released by the World Health Organization, also ranks Britain as 46th out of 168 countries in its league table. The US was even higher.
The World Health Organization ranked 168 countries based on the percentage of their population who don’t take part in the recommended amount of exercise each week (graph shows the results for men)
Globally, 32 per cent of women and 23 per cent of men fail to hit the activity target, according to the major report by the WHO, published in the Lancet medical journal (graph shows the results for women)
Some 36 per cent of Britons are putting their health at risk by not doing at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week.
But women appear to be lazier than men – with 40 per cent of women and 32 per cent of men failing to hit physical activity targets.
Experts have described the figures as a ‘damning indictment’ of the nation’s health.
The WHO urges people to do least 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week, such as cycling or brisk walking, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise, like running.
More British adults fail to hit these targets than people in Africa, South America and most of Asia. In poorer countries, people tend to have to walk further…
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