The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress
Eight hours of sleep used to be the norm, and all-nighters with only a few hours of rest were rare among teenagers. In recent years, however, there has been an alarming decline in sleep duration. It has reached a point where insufficient sleep among teens is considered a major public health problem in the US.
The analysis revealed that rates of insufficient sleep rose equally, or even more, among students without behavioral risk factors compared to those with them. The trend of rising sleep deprivation was national, but the increase was significantly larger among non-Hispanic Black students compared to non-Hispanic white students. They also found sleep loss to be much more common among students struggling with depressive symptoms or suicidal thoughts.
Source: MedicalXpress
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-teenagers-late-2000s.html