Women get more sleep but men are happier upon waking, study shows

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Women get more sleep than men do, according to a new report on 941,329 smartphone users across 47 countries.

Despite women enjoying anywhere from four to 34 minutes of extra shut-eye, men wake up happier in all but three of those countries, according to data from Sleep Cycle, a smartphone app that tracks users' sleep cycles. Columbia, Portugal, and Ukraine were the exceptions. The study tracked voluntary participants between ages 18 and 55 over a 10-month period.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.