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This is overstated. At least as of 2017, Americans walked about 93% as much as people in France, for example, and a little more than people in Portugal or Greece.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/747380/daily-step-averag...

Jogging was invented in the US. I think it is more of a class problem than a nationality problem.

I guess it says more about people in France, Portugal and Greece.

The difference is: they COULD walk if they wanted.

You can't if there is no walkway.

I don't have sidewalks in front of my house but our neighbors all take walks - and walk to main street. A quiet street that sees a few cars an hour doesn't need a sidewalk to be walkable.

The other scenario of no sidewalk are like rural roads that are very long with nothing in between. So there sorta "no place to walk to".

Google has giant offices in NYC. Like, you'd think this would have come up.