The bar chart depicts the percentage of men and women who lived in Australia did regular exercise at different range of age bands in 2010.
At first, it is apparent that the figures of women always stayed higher than those of men, except the youngest age bracket. The percentage of female participation reached its peak at the range of 45- to 54-year-olds, at 53.3 percent. Meanwhile, in the same age band, the figure of men was roughly 10 percent lower than that of women, at only 43.1 percent. However, there was no significant difference between the percentage of men and women in the oldest age bracket. It was 46.7 percent and 47.1 percent of male and female participation, who took exercise regularly, respectively.
Turning to the number of men, the figure of men who worked out regularly went to its peak at the age of 15- to 24-year-olds, at 52.8 percent, while the number represented female participation was merely 47.7 percent. Nevertheless, the men’s participation witnessed a evident drop along the increasing of age between 15-24 and 35-44 age band. After that, the percentage of men who did regular exercise fell to the bottom at 39.5 percent, whereas the numbers of women surpassed those of men in the following age brackets.