Andhra Pradesh's men are carrying one of the heaviest lifestyle loads in India, according to the Traya Hair Test Report, an analysis of 4,89,721 hair test responses from men across 20 states and 50 cities. The state ranks second in the country on disturbed sleep, with 29.8% of its men reporting disturbed nights, and third on high stress at 9.6%, against national averages of 22.1% and 7.7% respectively.
The combined stress picture is starker still. Nearly 65% of Andhra men report either high or moderate stress, and only 35.4% report little to no stress at all, the lowest share of any state in India. By their own account, calm is scarcer among Andhra's men than anywhere else in the country.
Andhra Pradesh in the Traya data
Sleep tells the same story from the other side of the night. Beyond the 29.8% reporting disturbed sleep, a further 9.5% of the state's men report slight problems during sleep, which means roughly four Andhra men in ten are not resting properly. Only Tamil Nadu, at 30.4% disturbed sleep, fares worse among the states.
The finding places Andhra Pradesh firmly inside the report's defining pattern: the concentration of stress and sleeplessness in southern India. Tamil Nadu leads both national tables, but Andhra Pradesh runs closest behind, ahead of Telangana on sleep and behind only Tamil Nadu and West Bengal on stress. The southern states, the report shows, are carrying a burden the North simply does not report.
The contrast across the map
Set against the gentlest end of the table, the gap is wide. In Rajasthan, just 17.6% of men report disturbed sleep and 77% describe their sleep as peaceful. In Jammu and Kashmir, high stress touches only 6.0% of men. An Andhra man is roughly 70% more likely to report disturbed sleep than a Rajasthani one, and more than half again as likely to report high stress as a man in Punjab or Haryana.
The report assigns no causes, and Andhra Pradesh offers many candidates: a fast industrialising economy, the churn of a state still rebuilding its administrative centre of gravity, agricultural stress in the districts and the pace of its growing cities. What the data settles is the scale. Across 11,802 respondents from the state, the pattern is consistent, and it asks a question of every employer, policymaker and household in Andhra Pradesh: what would it take to give the state's men back their rest?
The full report, including complete state and city tables, is available on the Traya newsroom at traya.health/newsroom, along with the latest Traya news and updates.
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