The line graph illustrate what kind of activities old people do in their down time in the united States since 1998. Overall, there are a growing trend for online related leisure and physical challenges like hiking among the elderly, while entertainment like Theatre is slowly falling in popularity.
In detail, the percentage of old people who enjoy reading had slightly risen to 40% in the 1990s, but crash down to only 20% the next decade. With the propotion of those who love surfing the net had a stable increase from 5% to 15% in the first half, and then that of both surfing the net and reading enthusiast grow steeply to 50% and 60% respectively at the end of the period.
There are little growth of old people who watches TV as a leisure hovering around 60% and 65% in 4 decades, while that of Hiking lover witness a quick rise from 20% to over 70% from the 1980s to now. Despite Elder theater enjoyer saw a major downs in numbers, they settle at 45% as of now.
