The bar chart illustrates the regular hours spent daily in free time and sports activities by people aged 15-19 and 75 or over in the US in 2015.
Overall, watching Tv was the most popular activity among both youngest and oldest populations. While, relaxing and thinking was the least popular activity among young people,sport exercise and recreation wasn’t as popular as other activities.
Watching TV was very popular activity in the US for both, people aged 15-19 and 75 and older, making up about 2,3 hours and 4,5 hours per day, respectively. Whereas reading was common for oldest population constituting 1 hour daily compared to young people (about 0,2 hours). Socializing, communicating was prevalent for teenagers, contributing for 0,7 hours and older people (above 0,5 hors) per day.
Relaxing and thinking, was common activity for elderly people (above 0,5 h), but was least common for younger people (0,2h) daily. Whereas playing games was popular for teenagers rather than people aged 75 and over (1,2 and 0,5 hours, respectively) Young people aged 15-19 spent 0,6 hours for sport, exercise and recreation, however elderly people spent about 0,1 hours daily.
