London, August 5 (ANI): Britain has been found to be the laziest country in the world, where more than 63 percent of the population falls into the category of 'inactive', a new study has suggested.

Scientific journal The Lancet, which has carried out a global study, included results from 122 countries, to rank them according to their laziness quotient.

Ireland, which is famous for it pubs and music, was ranked as the 18th least active country in the world.

The study also revealed that just over 40 percent of those in North America were inactive, putting it in the 46th spot, the Daily Mail reported.

Meanwhile, Greece was labelled the least lazy nation in the study, as only 15 percent of the population of the country was classed as inactive.

Other countries, which have raced ahead of UK in being inactive, were Kuwait, Micronesia, Argentina, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland and Malta

Top 20 laziest countries in the world are:

Malta - 71.9 percent inactive

Swaziland - 69.0 percent inactive

Saudi Arabia - 68.8 percent inactive

Serbia - 68.3 percent inactive

Argentina - 68.3 percent inactive

Micronesia - 66.3 percent inactive

Kuwait - 64.5 percent inactive

Britain - 63.3 percent inactive

United Arab Emirates - 62.5 percent inactive

Malaysia - 61.4 percent inactive

Japan - 60.2 percent inactive

Dominican Republic - 60.0 percent inactive

Namibia - 58.5 percent inactive

Iraq - 58.4 percent inactive

Turkey - 56.0 percent inactive

Cyprus - 55.4 percent inactive

Italy - 54.7 percent inactive

Ireland - 53.2 percent inactive

South Africa - 52.4 percent inactive

Bhutan - 52.3 percent inactive (ANI)