Women Sleep More Than Men, but They’re More Stressed, Oura Report Finds

December 18, 2025

Smart ring giant Oura has released its 2025 Year in Review, giving members with at least 60 days of data a personalized look at how their sleep, activity and recovery evolved over the past year. One of the key trends that emerged: women tend to sleep more hours per night than men, although they also tend to experience more stress during the day.

To compile the report, Oura’s data science team analyzed de-identified data from millions of members worldwide to surface global trends from this year.

Sleep once again emerged as a cornerstone of health, with members in New Zealand and Australia leading the global rankings. Oura members in New Zealand posted the highest average Sleep Score at 80, followed closely by Australia at 79.4. Several European countries rounded out the top tier, including Austria and Denmark at 79, Sweden at 78.8 and the U.K. and Northern Ireland, Czechia and the Netherlands all clustered around 78.8. Finland and Germany followed closely at 78.7.

Oura’s 2025 data also highlighted meaningful differences between male and female members. On average, women logged 7.24 hours of sleep per night compared to 6.8 hours for men. Female members also recorded higher Sleep Scores at 79.2 versus 76 and higher Activity Scores at 82.8 compared to 79.6.

Cardiovascular Age followed a similar pattern. Women averaged a CVA of -2 while men averaged -1.8, indicating slightly better long-term cardiovascular health among female members. Stress told a different story. Women experienced an average of 128.6 stressed minutes per day while men logged 97 minutes, giving men a notable edge when it comes to daily stress load.

When it came to steps, Europe led the charge. Ireland topped the leaderboard with an average of 8,924 steps per day, followed closely by Spain at 8,916 and Italy at 8,907. Czechia, the UK and Northern Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, France and Norway rounded out the top ten, all averaging well over 8,600 steps per day.

Oura’s Daytime Stress data revealed that the United States recorded the highest average stressed minutes per day at 121.2. The Netherlands, Norway, Austria and Canada followed closely, each averaging between 116 and 120 stressed minutes per day. Oura does emphasize that its stress metric reflects physiological stress rather than emotional distress alone, so elevated stress markers can be triggered by exercise, caffeine, cognitive load or environmental factors, highlighting that not all stress is inherently negative.

Cardiovascular health emerged as another area where Northern Europe excelled. Sweden led all countries with the lowest average Cardiovascular Age at -2.8, meaning members’ cardiovascular systems appeared nearly three years younger than their chronological age. Norway and Switzerland followed at -2.7, with the Netherlands at -2.65 and Denmark at -2.6.

The report comes as Oura is scaling fast. The smart ring maker announced in September that it has surpassed 5.5 million rings sold since 2015, with more than half of those sales coming in the last year alone.

Oura also said it was tracking toward $1 billion in 2025 sales after generating more than $500 million in revenue in 2024, expanding the member base and the volume of sleep, activity and recovery data powering its insights. In October, the company raised over $900 million in new funding at a roughly $11 billion valuation. Athletech News