The chart depicts the proportion of male and female Australians of different age brackets who routinely exercised in 2010. Overall, there were more female than male who exercised routinely in most of the age groups. In addition, female showed an increasing trend to pick up exercise as a regular activity as they aged, while male showed the opposite.
Firstly, more male youngsters (52.8%) at the age of 15 to 24 years old, exercised regularly than female youngsters (47.7%). The proportion than reversed which, from 25 years old onwards, there was consistently more women than men who exercised regularly. At the age of 25 to 34 years old, there was a marginal increase by 1.2% in female who exercised, while men of this age group saw a steep drop in the percentage by 10.6%. The next age bracket (35 to 44 years old) saw a further climb in the activity level of female when more than half (52.5%) of them engaged in sports. Meanwhile, only 39.5% of the male of the same age exercised.
Women are most active in the age ranges of 45 to 54 years old and 55 to 64 years old, as 53.3% and 53% of them, respectively, still retained exercising as a life routine. In these two age brackets, increasing number men also started to develop this healthy habit as 43.1% (45 to 54 years old) and 45.1% (55 to 64 years old) of them exercised in a routine manner. When this group of Australians reached 65 years old and above, there were almost equal proportion of men (46.7%) and women (47.6%) who exercised.