How many steps does the average person take per day?

Smartphone data from 717,000 people in 111 countries found a global average of about 4,960 steps a day. Hong Kong led at 6,880; Indonesia was lowest at 3,513. The '10,000 steps' target began as a 1965 Japanese pedometer marketing campaign (the manpo-kei), not as a medical finding, and health benefits appear well below it.

Source: Althoff et al. (2017), Nature