The bar chart compares the youngest (aged 15-19) and the eldest (aged over 75) populations in the USA in terms of how much time they allocated to leisure and sports activities – TV, reading, relaxing, socializing, computer games, and sport – per day in 2015.
Overall, younger generations spent more time on three activities, such as socializing, playing computer and sports, while older people, aged above 75, were more active in the other 3 categories. In addition, older people showed a bigger disparity between hours spent on the activities. What is more, watching TV was by far the most favourite activity among both age groups.
Looking more closely, using a computer for fun was the favourite leisure activity among teenagers, with a little over an hour spent on it every day, whereas it was half an hour for the elderly. In addition, expending just over half an hour on sports, teenagers were more dedicated than their older counterparts, who spent about 10 minutes. The amount of time spent on socializing was also higher for the young than that of the elderly, albeit at a more moderate rate, with respective figures of roughly 45 minutes and 40 minutes.
As for the other leisure activities, the figures were bigger for the elderly. They expended around half an hour and an hour on relaxing and reading, respectively, while the time expended on both categories by the young was around 5-10 minutes. Finally, TV watching was loved the most by both age types, with older generations spending 4.5 hours and younger ones expending just below 2.5 hours, accordingly.