The bar chart below
shows the percentage of Australian men and
women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given bar chart
illustrates the participation of Australian men and women in regular physical
regimes in different age groups, in 2010.
Overall, age-wise
patterns of both the genders were inversely proportional to each other, where
lesser men undertook such activities as the age rose to a certain point,
participation of women rose, but in 65 and over, both the genders had equal
engagement. Similarly, the highest participation in males was in the youngest
age group while among women it was at the peak in the oldest.
The highest
participation among men was age group 15 to 24, 52.8%, but it plummeted
to 39.5% in 35 - 44 group though the fall was steeper upto 25-34, reaching
42.2%. After that the participation rose steadily to 46.7% in the oldest
group.
However, the
participation among women peaked at 53.3% in the 45 - 54 age group after rising
from 47.7%, the lowest, among the youngest group, it dropped to 47.1% in the
oldest group.
