The chart illustrates the percentages of New Zealand men and women across different age groups who engaged in regular physical activity. Overall, females were more active than men except for the 14 to 23 age bracket. Nonetheless, approximately more than 40% of people engaged in regular physical activity.
Men were most active in the early age while women were least active. Over 50% of them stayed active whereas only 46.9% of women were active. In the two following age groups, the gap between men and women widened. More young to middle aged women were focused on fitness as compared to men. The percentage of men dropped by more than 10%, standing at 43.%1 for 24 to 33 year old and 38.8% for 34 to 43 year old, the lowest rate in all age groups for both genders. On the other hand, women share increased to 49.2% for young adults and crossed the 50% mark for 34 to 43 year olds reaching 53.1%.
For people in mid-forties to early fifties, the frequency of each gender increased. From this point forward, men started to focus more on physically activity as their participation rate begin to improve. For the opposite party – women, it was the peak, 54.2% of women regularly worked out. However, it started to decline in older ages for females. For people aged between 54 and 63, 44.7% of men and 52.8% of women participated in regular physical activity. Lastly, for older age, the propotion of men and women was nearly equal with a difference of only 1.1%, 47.2% of men and 48.1% of women exercised regularly.