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U.S. teens are getting their least amount of sleep in decades—lowering their chances to 'lead fulfilling lives as adults,' health experts say

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 859 words · By Renée Onque
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What to know about U.S. teens are getting their least amount of sleep in decades—lowering their chances to 'lead fulfilling lives as adults,' health experts say

The less sleep teenagers get, the more ill-equipped they are to navigate the challenges of adolescence, health experts say.

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What happened

The less sleep teenagers get, the more ill-equipped they are to navigate the challenges of adolescence, health experts say.

Why it matters

Yet the amount of sleep that teens are getting each night is the lowest it's been since 1991, new research shows.

Common ground

adolescents and teenagers in grades eight, 10 and 12, sleep levels have steadily decreased over the years from 1991 to 2023, according to researchers from the University of Minnesota, Columbia University and the University of Michigan.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Their paper, published on May 12, used data from Monitoring the Future, an ongoing survey of over 400,000 U.S. students.”
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The Guardian and other sources confirm the study used data from 'Monitoring the Future' representing over 400,000 US students.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Environmental monitoring is the scope of processes and activities that are done to characterize and describe the state of the environment. It is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessm…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — U.S. Bancorp (stylized as us bancorp) is an American multinational banking institution headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and incorporated in Delaware. It is the 7th-largest bank in the United St…
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Claim 2: “Blue light from phone screens can make it harder to fall asleep once they finally put their phones down for the night, research shows.”
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Multiple scientific and health-focused sources confirm that blue light from screens suppresses melatonin and disrupts the circadian rhythm, making it harder to fall asleep.
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 16, 2022 ... It has a wavelength which may influence our circadian rhythm and cause bad sleep. But there are other aspects of blue light exposure which are ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9424753/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 11, 2025 ... The screens of electronic devices such as smartphones, computers, tablets, and televisions can emit blue light that disrupts our natural ...
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/bedroom-environment/blue-lig…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... 1️⃣ **Blue light delays melatonin release** Screens emit short-wavelength blue light that suppresses melatonin, the hormone that signals the ...
https://www.facebook.com/IUMedicine/posts/could-the-screens-…
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Claim 3: “Teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 years old should sleep between eight and 10 hours a day, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.”
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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is an authoritative body, and multiple sources, including a consensus statement and a health advisory, explicitly confirm the 8-10 hour recommendation for teens 13-18.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is a United States professional society for the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine, which focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder (non-24, N24SWD, or N24) is one of several chronic circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSDs). It is defined as a "chronic steady pattern comprising [...] daily delays in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sleep medicine or somnology is a medical specialty or subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research in the field …
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Claim 4: “Unaddressed mental health issues like depression in adolescent years can "extend to adulthood, impairing both physical and mental health and limiting opportunities to lead fulfilling lives as adults," according to the World Health Organization.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia and news search results for the word 'World' and 'World News', which do not contain the specific quote or statement from the World Health Organization regarding adolescent depression.
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web search NEUTRAL — In various contexts, the term "world" takes a more restricted meaning associated, for example, with the Earth and all life on it, with humanity as a whole, or with an international or intercontinental…
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web search NEUTRAL — Stay informed with top world news today. The Associated Press aims to keep you up-to-date with breaking world news stories around the globe.
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web search NEUTRAL — Young people angry about frequent leaks of college entrance tests present one of the biggest challenges in years to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Months after a deadly fire in Hong Kong killed...
https://www.nytimes.com/international/section/world
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Claim 5: “By 2023, just 22.3% of the older teenagers reported sleeping for at least seven hours a night.”
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Two separate web sources report that by 2023, approximately 22% (specifically 22.3% in one source) of older teenagers reported sleeping at least seven hours a night.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — IN, In or in may refer to:
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to ⁠1/36⁠ yard or ⁠1/12⁠ of a foot. Derived from the Roman un…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their personnel at the hands of enemy or hostile forces at the moment of action. The United S…
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Claim 6: “the amount of sleep that teens are getting each night is the lowest it's been since 1991”
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Multiple web search results confirm that sleep levels for U.S. teens have steadily decreased from 1991 to 2023 and that recent data shows the lowest levels in that period.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adolescence (from Latin adolescere 'to mature') is a transitional stage of human physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically co…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Teenage Dream is the third studio album by the American singer Katy Perry. It was released on August 24, 2010, through Capitol Records and follows her second album One of the Boys (2008). Primarily a …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a 2026 American slasher film, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun. It stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, with Jack Haven and Patrick Fischler in s…
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Claim 7: “For U.S. adolescents and teenagers in grades eight, 10 and 12, sleep levels have steadily decreased over the years from 1991 to 2023, according to researchers from the University of Minnesota, Columbia University and the University of Michigan.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm the steady decrease in sleep for students in grades 8, 10, and 12 between 1991 and 2023, citing the same research trend.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Safe to Sleep campaign, formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign, is an initiative backed by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the U.S. National Inst…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sleep is an American stoner doom metal band from San Jose, California. Bassist and vocalist Al Cisneros has been the only constant member throughout the band's history. Critic Eduardo Rivadavia descri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the health condition of not having adequate duration or quality of sleep to support proper alertness, performance, and health.…
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Claim 8: “Non-Hispanic Black teens, Hispanic/Latino teens and those whose parents have received less education sleep even less than their peers, according to the paper.”
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While the general study is mentioned across sources, the specific demographic breakdown regarding Non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic/Latino, and parental education is not explicitly corroborated by the other provided evidence snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Teenagers have always been sleepy, but they've never been as sleepy as they are now. That's according to a new study on the sleep of teens in the US.
https://engoo.com.tr/app/daily-news/article/us-teens-getting…
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web search NEUTRAL — Hispanic parents worry more than black or white parents about all eight measures we asked about, from being bullied to having problems with drugs or alcohol (a trend driven primarily by foreign-born H…
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web search NEUTRAL — Non-Hispanic persons of a single race other than those shown or of multiple races are not shown separately because of small sample sizes but are included in the total.In 2010, approximately one third …
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6030a6.htm
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