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Hungary vs Romania – where are more couch potatoes?
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A new Eurostat survey reveals shocking data about the amount of time citizens of each country spend doing physical activities. The survey reveals that one in four EU citizens spend no time at all with exercise, while it also turned out Romania is way ahead of Hungary when it comes to the activity levels of people.
The study focused on EU citizens over 16 in 2017 – reports VG. As it turns out, 28% of EU citizens spent no time doing any kind of exercise. However, most of the citizens did some kind of sports, fitness or physical activities outside of work.
27% of those asked revealed that they spent a maximum of three hours doing exercise on an average week. 17% defined this amount of time between 3-5 hours, while a little more than 25% said that they dedicated at least 5 hours to work out.
In most EU member states, at least half of the population did some kind of exercise regularly, while the EU average is 72% when it comes to those doing some kind of physical activities outside of work. There are ten countries in the EU where more people work out regularly than the EU average, while thirteen countries have worse statistics than the overall average. Spain, Poland and Luxembourg are in line with the EU average. (Note: Estonia, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and Slovakia were excluded from the survey as Eurostat deemed the data collected there unreliable.)
