As 2024 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on your accomplishments. Now accessible in the Today tab in your Oura App, Oura’s Year in Review highlights personalized insights based on your unique health data.*
By revealing patterns in your habits and celebrating your achievements, Oura’s Year in Review encourages you to reflect on how this past year affected your well-being.
Your Year in Review will reveal interesting trends and insights into your sleep patterns, activity, recovery, Stress Resilience, Cardiovascular Age, and more from the past year. New this year, you’ll also receive a “personality type” based on your strengths: Earth (Resilience), Water (Sleep), and Fire (Activity).
| Member Tip: Find your Year in Review in the Oura App in the Today tab, or go to the menu, tap on Reports, then tap Yearly. Be sure to share your achievements with your friends and family by tapping the icon, and invite them to join in next year with your personal discount on the new Oura Ring 4. |
*Available on the latest version of the Oura App on iOS and Android to members who have at least 60 days of data.
Year in Review illustrations created by artist Maria Medem
2024 Year in Review: Global Data Stories
To understand how Oura members around the world slept, moved, stressed, and recovered this year, our Data Science team analyzed de-identified, aggregate data from December 2023 through November 2024.**
Below, discover some of the most interesting global trends among Oura members in 2024—from the most stressful days to the most active nations.
The Oceanic countries of New Zealand and Australia inched out the competition to come in first and second place. New Zealand led the way with an impressive average Sleep Score of 79.8, closely followed by our Aussie friends with 78.7.
To round out the top five, Sweden came in with 78.5, Finland with 78.4, and Austria with 78.2. Four of these countries are repeat winners from 2023, with Austria swapping in for Switzerland.
Like last year, we’re excited to see Oura’s home country of Finland on the list—though it comes as no surprise, considering the Finns are renowned for their active lifestyles and healthy habits.
It’s also interesting to note that Oura members worldwide are sleeping relatively soundly: The mean Sleep Score across all countries was 77.0!
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It must be the luck of the Irish. Ireland topped the list for the highest average daily step count, with members totaling just over 10,000 steps per day. Not far behind, Estonia, the UK and Northern Ireland, Sweden, and Czechia (also known as the Czech Republic) round out the list.
Notably, all of the most active nations are based in Europe, where residents are known for walking and using public transportation, as opposed to the more car-centric culture in the U.S.
Whether or not you’re keeping up with the Irish, you can enjoy the cardiovascular and metabolic benefits of walking when you track your steps with Oura. Research suggests that taking around 7,000 steps is ideal for good health, but studies show that the more you walk, the more benefits you’ll reap.
READ MORE: How Many Steps Per Day Do You Actually Need?
Oura members in Sweden and Norway are apparently the “youngest at heart,” with an average Cardiovascular Age (CVA) of 2.63 and 2.46 years below their chronological age respectively. Introduced in May 2024, this feature is based on an estimate of your pulse wave velocity (PWV)—widely used as the gold-standard measurement of arterial stiffness.
While cardiovascular health is determined by a variety of factors (including genetics), research shows that lifestyle habits play a key role in promoting heart health. It seems that we can all take some advice from our Scandinavian friends’ lifestyles, which typically involve getting active outdoors, eating heart-healthy foods like fatty fish and whole grains, and establishing a healthy work-life balance.
Placing third with an average CVA of below 2.43 years, the Netherlands is notable for its own unique heart-healthy habit: biking. Ranked number one in the world when it comes to cycling, many residents opt to cycle instead of drive or take public transportation in its world-renowned bike-friendly cities.
LEARN MORE: 8 Ways to Improve Your Cardiovascular Health
Sunday Scaries? Not around here! On Sundays, Oura members clocked the fewest “stressed” minutes, while Friday topped the list for the most stressed minutes, according to data from Oura’s Daytime Stress feature.
It makes sense that Sunday, a day typically reserved for rest and relaxation, remains relatively low-stress for members. And although you may look forward to Fridays, between happy hours and dinners out, your body may experience more physiological stress than you realize.
Keep in mind that experiencing stress is not always a bad thing, though. Showing up in your body as a heightened heart rate or body temperature, physiological stress can be caused by many activities, including those you love—like having a drink with friends or a hot yoga class.
READ MORE: Reframing Stress: The Difference Between “Bad” and “Good” Stress
In what is perhaps the least surprising finding from our data, members in the United States logged the most stressed minutes in 2024, with an average of nearly 105 stressed minutes per day.
We’d venture to guess that America’s fast-paced culture, sedentary lifestyles, and pervasive sleep deprivation may have played a part—not to mention a high-stakes election that ruled the news cycles for the majority of the year.
In more surprising news, Norway and the Netherlands, two of the happiest countries in the world, came in right behind the U.S., with 104.7 and 102.7 stressed minutes per day. Keep in mind that physiological stress, as measured by Oura, can be the healthy kind of stress—think: sauna, hiking, spending time with friends, all of which are common habits in these European countries.
Finally, Canada and Estonia round out the list, with 101.8 and 101.7 stressed minutes per day.
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This year, Oura members were categorized into one of three natural elements—Fire, Water, or Earth—based on their most positive health metrics.
The Oura community slightly overindexed on the Fire element, showing a penchant for reaching their activity goals—and with Oura, all movement counts! A little over a third of members were categorized as Water, signifying their strong sleep habits. Just under 30% of members aligned with Earth, symbolizing resilience—their ability to balance out stress with recovery.
No matter which category you fall into, we congratulate you on a healthy 2024—and we’re excited to continue supporting you on your health journey in 2025.
LEARN MORE: Rest & Resilience: The Role of Sleep in Stress Management
**Data is based on countries with at least 2,000 Oura members, including data from December 2023 to November 2024.
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