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1 Teenagers need about 8.5-9.5 hours on average. 2  Most adults need 7 to 9 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 6 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day. 3  Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual.
In general, the average healthy adult needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night. Experiments have demonstrated that the average amount of sleep needed to avoid detrimental effects on daytime function is about 8 hours and 10 minutes. It is recommended that adults beyond age 65 may need less sleep, averaging 7 to 8 hours instead. This normal distribution of sleep needs in a population is a bell-shaped curve. Just like height, weight, intelligence, and other factors: there are people at the extremes and you may not fit the average..