Band 6+: the chart below shows male and female fitness membership between 1970 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives information about the fitness membership trend between Men and Women from 1970 to 2000.

Overall, Men experienced a downward trend, while Women showed an upward trend throughout the period. Both gender’s number had some fluctuation. Although at the beginning of the period, Women had a lower number but it outraced Men at the end of the period.

In 1970, Men’s score was above 2000, being higher than Women’s score by nearly 1000. Then it increased to about 4000 in 1975, but it continued gradually decreased between 1980 and 1985 to above 2000 and below 2000, respectively. However, the figure reaching its peaked with 5000 in 1995 before steeply fell to about 1000 in 2000.

The fitness membership for Women was about 1000 in 1970. Next, it increased to 2000 in 1975 but fell in 1980 with just below 2000. It firstly surpassed the Men group in 1985 with below 3000. On contrary, it experienced a downfall again in 1990 before an upward in 1995 with above 2000 and below 3000, respectively. at the end of the period, Women membership was higher than Men by 1000.