When it comes to hanging out with friends after school, Danish kids don’t rank very well internationally, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The report showed that just 16 percent of boys aged 11-15 and 14 percent of girls in the same age group hang out with their friends in the afternoons after school.
“We know that social relations in all humans’ lives are important, and we don’t know yet what it means that we are together less physically,” Mette Rasmussen, an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Health, told DR Nyheder.
“It’s an area that we know little about and which needs much more research.”
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Passing on the pals
The figures get even worse as the kids got older.
For 15-year-olds, just 7 percent of girls hang out with friends in their spare time, compared to 13 percent of boys.
