Although the data collected in these various studies is incredibly accurate, it is still an average of millions of people living a typical western lifestyle, and the results are fascinating!

Here is how much time humans spend doing typical daily tasks over their lifespan, with an average life expectancy of 75 years:

  • In a lifetime, the typical human spends 1.4 years of their life sitting on the toilet.
  • We spend 26 years of our life sleeping
  • We spend 11 precious years watching TV, we're quite sure we spend a significant portion of that just finding something to watch
  • An average of 10.3 years at work
  • Waiting 27 days for transportation
  • We sacrifice 5 months of our lives just complaining
  • What about home chores? We spend 3 years just washing our clothes
  • Only 116 hours laughing, this needs to increase!
  • Woman spend 136 days getting ready
  • Men spend 46 days getting ready
  • Men spend an average of 43 minutes a day staring at woman either in public or digitally
  • Men spend 9 hours experiencing an orgasm
  • Woman spend just 90 minutes experiencing an orgasm over their lifetime

Take a look at the video below by YouTube channel, Not What You Think, on How Humans Spend Their Time.