The bar chart illustrates the percentage of men and women from Australia, belonging to different age ranges, who were involved in doing physical activities on regular basis in the year 2010.
Overall, young males in their teens and early 20s were more active than their female counterparts. The rate of physical activities, however, declined amongst them until they reached mid 40s. The percentage difference between men and women was marginal when they reached 65 years and above.
Starting with the younger cohort (aged between 15 to 24 years old) , 52.8% of men continuously participated in some form of fitness regimes compared to 47.7% of women. The pattern declined with age.
The data shows that 42.2% men in their mid 20s to early 30s (i.e., 25 to 34 years old) were engaged in regular work outs in contrast to 48.95% of women in the same age rage. Further drop in physical fitness rate was evident in the following age range (35 to 44 years old) where only 39.5% were physically active. The tendency of physical activities, however, increased to 43.1% and 45.1% in the age groups belonging to 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 years. Further, the data was significantly higher amongst women belonging to these aforementioned age ranges. Approximately more than 50% females in such age cohorts participated in regular physical activities. In addition, no remarkable differences were observed in elderly people (65 years old and over), with approximately 46-47% of men and women involving in health and fitness.