The line graph illustrates the number of eldery people who spent their leisure time on reading, hiking, theatre, sport and surfing the Internet in Europe between 1980 and 2010. The units are measured in percentage.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that there were considerable increases in all of the activities except theatre. Another interesting point is that playing sport was the most popular hobby in 1980, but in 2010 the major number of older people attended hiking. In addition, the highest figure in the chart was for hiking in 2010.
Looking at the details as regards playing sport, it started at 60% in 1980 and increased steadily to 70% in 2000. However, in 2010 the spending time on sport showed a marginal decrease to around 67%. If we look at hiking, the number of elders who were interested in this leisure activity was increasing gradually from 20% to 80% between 1980 and 2010 years. Regarding to reading, it began at 30% in 1980 and then experienced gradual rise to 40% in 1990. Following this, the rate halved in 2000. After that, the percentage of reading was shooting up to 60% in 2010.
Turning to the number of seniors who were interested in visiting theatre, the initial persentage was 50% in 1980 and witnessed slight fall to 30% in 1990. Then, the propotion was climbing moderately to 40% in 2000. Next, the rate of individuals who spent their time on theatre demonstrated a negligible growth to about 45% in 2010. As for surfing the Internet, the percentage of elders were growing substantially to around 15% over a twenty-year period from 1980 to 2000. Subsequently, the figure rocketed to 50% in 2010.