This statistic provides a comparison of the average amount of time spent eating and drinking by gender in OECD member countries as well as China, India and South Africa. As of 2016, the average time spent eating in France was 130 and 133 minutes per day for women and men respectively. This is significantly higher than the averages of 58 minutes for women and 61 minutes for men in Canada.
Average minutes per day spent eating and drinking in OECD countries plus China, India and South Africa by gender, as of 2016
Figures are based on numbers collated by the OECD from the various national time use surveys of the countries included in the statistic.
Data are normalized to 1440 minutes per day. In other words, for those countries for which the time use does not sum up to 1440 minutes, the missing minutes are equally distributed across all activities.
Age group is 15-64 for all countries but Australia (15+), Hungary (15-74), Sweden (25-64) and China (15-74).
*Hungary and Turkey were excluded as no data was available
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