# RKS: OUR LIFE IN NUMBERS - Our 68-Year Engagement Clock

     

# RKS: OUR LIFE IN NUMBERS

OUR 68-YEAR ENGAGEMENT CLOCK

RKS / 2025-2026 / Ser 8 / Blog 5

1st February 2026

THE SPENDING OF TIME ON DAILY BASIS

MODERN LIFE ROUTINE

Dear Reader,

Has one ever thought about how much time is spent on sleeping, relaxing in front of the TV, or working in one's lifetime? The average Indian spends roughly 68 years, or 24,820 days, or 5925,680 hours, on Earth. Let's take a moment to explore a whole lifetime and discover just how valuable every minute truly could be. 

SLEEP

The average person spends about 26 years sleeping in their life, which equates to 9,496 days or 2,27,916 hours. That’s one-third of the entire life spent asleep in bed. Surprisingly, one also spends 7 years trying to get to sleep — thus a total of 33 years!

In India the sleep is usually for 7 hours per day – i.e. 1,73,740 hours or 7,239 days of lifetime. Hence, an average Indian utilizes 20 years of his life in dozing.

WORK

Whether daily grind or dream career, the jobs take up a lot of our time; 13 years on average, actually. That’s 24% of a typical working period of 50 years. 

The typical Indian works 8 hours a day for approximately 250 days in a year for 45 years i.e. total of 90,000 hours or 3,750 days of lifespan – which means 10.2 years of lifespan are only consumed at the workplace.

SCREEN-TIME

Indians spend average 3.5 hours per day watching TV. Since TV indulgence commences around 15 years of age, that’s enough to watch 2,821 days or 67,708 hour-long programmes in a lifetime i.e. 7.8 years from one’s lifespan.

How many times a day does one scrolls the cell phone? Enough to spend about 91,250 hours or 3,802 days or 10 years of a life on social and digital media.

EATING

Food, glorious food,… arguably one of life’s greatest pleasures. Indians relish eating so much that almost 4 and a half years of lifetime is spent on consuming food! That’s 1,643 days’ equivalent of munching time or 4.5 years dedicated to the call of the stomach.

Indians spend 1.5 hours daily eating or 37,230 hours / 1551 days over a lifetime. Hence, 4.25 years are spent in eating. Additionally household ladies / men spend @ 13 hours weekly for cooking - totalling 33,800 hours or 1,408 days which is equivalent to ~4 years of lifespan in the kitchen.

SCHOOLING

Indians attend schools for 15 years, spending 7 hours per day, but enjoy 70 to 90 days of holidays each year. Hence, one spends for schooling 29,925 hours or 1247 days i.e. 3.4 years of lifetime in primary and secondary classes!

HOLIDAYING

Most Indians will spend just over 3 years of their lives in different destinations other than their homes. This translates to 1,095 days in far-flung places.

Indians opt for 2-3 smart weekend holidays (3-4 days each) in addition to 1-2 long vacations (15 days average) annually. Hence, 1,250 days of holidaying or 3.4 years of life is spent in leisure vacationing. 

EXERCISING

Exercise takes up an average of 1.3 years ion one's life. That means the spend is more than double the time on social media than one does for feeling the burn, and one spends globally over six times as long a period compared to watching TV.

An average Indian exercises just 19 minutes per day! Hence, 4,623 hours or 193 days or 0.5 year of life is spent in exercising.

ROMANCING

Romance isn’t completely dead, at least not for most Indians. The average person spends 395 days in their life being romantic. 

In India, students typically become romantic when they enter college which is generally at the age of 18 years. The men marry at the age of 28 years and women averagely at 25.3 years. In between the years from becoming romantic to marrying, an average Indian meets the opposite sex ‘friend’ maybe 2.1 hours every 1.5 times a week. This translates to a total of 1,512 hours for a male and 1,104 hours for females pre-marriage i.e. 0.17 year for men and 0.13 year for women of their lives total years spent in romancing.

WHERE ELSE?

After all the ‘essentials’ like working, eating, and being entertained, the left over extras - things which are done every day without thinking about include:

• Queuing up takes 235 days or 0.6 year of one's life.
• 115 days are spent laughing i.e. 0.3 year of lifetime.
• Women spend 136 days getting ready, while men only take 46 days i.e. equivalent to 0.4 years by females as against 0.1 year in case of males.
• While females spent 289 minutes on an average in a day for unpaid domestic services for household members, males spent 88 minutes i.e. 8.5 years females which includes ~4 years in cooking) vs 2.4 years of life for males spent for daily chores other than cooking.
• Males spend 75 minutes in a day caring for their household members while females spend nearly double the time (137 minutes) equalling for males: 2.1 years and for females: 4 years.
• Indians spend 130 minutes a day on socialising and communicating, community participation and religious practices which equals 3.6 years of their lives.

The miscellaneous as stated above occupies 9.1 years of life in males versus 15.5 years in females.

CONCLUSIONS

Table: Summarising the number of years allocation during a 68 years presumed lifespan of an average Indian.

Graph: "ज़िन्दगी का हिसाब-किताब".

After all this is added together, and we live longer, the balance left will be time taken for commuting, having a family, running races, telling stories, and so much more.

Activities, commitments and chores can always be prioritized in one's life to extract the maximum pleasure of the years one lives on this lovely planet called Earth. It is always upto an individual to relish the dopamine induced pleasure or remain grumpy by complaining like as been mentioned by the Welsh poet W. H. Davies  who penned 'Leisure', which famously begins: 'What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare.'

DR R K SANGHAVI

Prophesied Enabler

Experience & Expertise: Clinician & Healthcare Industry Adviser

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