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The full 2015 National Sleep Foundation table, row by row, with the recommended hours for every age band from newborns to older adults.
The 2015 National Sleep Foundation table divides the lifespan into eight age bands. Newborns aged 0–3 months need 14 to 17 hours, infants 4–11 months need 12 to 15 hours, toddlers 1–2 years need 11 to 14 hours, and preschoolers 3–4 years need 10 to 13 hours.
The older half of the table continues the same downward trend: school-age children 5–12 years need 9 to 11 hours, teenagers 13–17 years need 8 to 10 hours, adults 18–64 need 7 to 9 hours, and older adults 65 and over need 7 to 8 hours.
Newborn babies sleep up to 18 hours a day, and the CDC recommendations fall steadily with age from that starting point. Both sources point the same direction even where the exact bounds differ by an hour.
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Each row gives a range rather than a single figure. The lower bound of the row is the number to protect; the upper bound is the number to aim for when the night allows it.
Sleep duration measures length of sleep, while sleep quality covers how fast you fall asleep and whether the sleep is unbroken. Read the hours on this page as the duration half of the measure.
To turn a row into a schedule, take the hours, divide them into 90-minute cycles, and count back from a fixed wake time — the procedure set out on the planning page.
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