# 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,

Have you ever thought about how much time you spend sleeping, relaxing in front of the TV, or working? 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 our entire lives spent asleep in bed. Surprisingly, we also spend 7 years trying to get to sleep — a total of 33 years!

In India the sleep is usually 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, our 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 in a job.

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 do you look at your 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. We love it so much that we spend almost 4 and a half years eating it! That’s 1,643 days’ worth of time munching away 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, 33,800 hours or 1,408 days equivalent to ~4 years of lifespan in cooking.

SCHOOLING

Indians school for 15 years and spend 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 lives in primary and secondary classes!

HOLIDAYING

Most of us will spend just over 3 years of our lives in different destinations than the ones we call home. This translates as 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 our life. 

EXERCISING

Exercise takes up an average of 1.3 years of our lives. That means the spend is more than double the time on social media than one does feeling the burn, and one spends globally over six times as long watching the TV.

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

ROMANCING

Romance isn’t completely dead, at least not for the most part. 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 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.

WHERE ELSE?

After all the ‘essentials’ like working, eating, and being entertained, we’re left with all the extras - things we do every day without thinking about:

• We spend 235 days or 0.6 year of our lives waiting in queues.
• 115 days are spent laughing i.e. 0.3 year of our lives.
• Women spend 136 days getting ready, while men only take 46 days i.e. 0.4 years by females as against 0.1 year in case of males.
• While females spent 289 minutes on average in a day in 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.
• Males spend 75 minutes in a day caring for their household members while females spend nearly double the time (137 minutes); males: 2.1 years; females: 4 years
• Indians spend 130 minutes a day on socialising and communicating, community participation and religious practice 3.6 years of life.

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.

DR R K SANGHAVI

Prophesied Enabler

Experience & Expertise: Clinician & Healthcare Industry Adviser

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