The bar graph below shows detailed information on the percentage of Australian men and women, ranging from age 15 to 65 and over who performed regular physical activities in 2010. The chart illustrates the percentage comparison between males and females of the same age group to different age groups decreasing or increasing performance in regular physical activities.
Overall, there is a higher percentage of men who do regular physical activities from teenagers to young adults compared to early middle-aged men who perform lesser physical activities than the rest of the age group, contrarily women in their late middle age do more physical activities than women in early middle age. However, in old age, there are only slight differences for both males and females, with females on a higher scale than men.
In Australia, 52.8% of young adults and teenagers are reported to perform regular physical activities, whereas early middle-aged men are recorded to do less physical activities with a percentage of 39.5%. Unlike the men, it is observed that women in their mid-forties to fifty years undertake regular physical activities at 53.3% than women in their mid-sixties and above at 47.1%.
While there is a clear distinction between men and women who performed more regular activities in the age groups, there is a small margin of 4% difference between men and women of old age as both genders partake slightly the same level of regular physical activities.
In conclusion, it is observed that women perform more regular physical activities than men in different age groups, while men are likely to perform less than the women do.