The bar chart illustrates daily consumption of salt, expressed in milligrams, by men and women categorized into different age groups in a country in Europe in the year 2019. It can be clearly seen that salt was consumed over the recommended daily limit for most of their lifetime. Moreover, intake of salt was the highest from early 20s to late 30s while it was the least in the pre-teen and post 70s era. Additionally, men consumed more salt than women.
According to the chart, male child aged between 2 and 5 consumed roughly 1500mg of salt, which became roughly 5 times at a little over 5000mg by the time they reached their peak adulthood in 30s. The intake number from there on seemed to have declined with the age, falling to a little under 4000mg in their 70s.
Similarly, women’s salt intake was almost directly proportional to that of men rising from around 1400mg under age 6 to just below 4000 in their 30s, and gradually declining to the recommended limit of 2300mg by age 70 although the difference between the intake when compared with that of men become significantly larger after the age of 40 in contrast to the difference of intake before that.