The bar chart compares the average number of hours in leisure and sports activities dedicated by American youngsters and older people during 2015.
Overall, it is noticeable that watching TV was the most popular activity among both ages, significantly exceeding the figures for other activities such as reading, relaxing/reasoning. Additionally, those of playing games and sport exercises, socializing, and commentating were relatively moderate.
Specifically, youngsters aged 15-19 tended to spend nearly 2.5 hours on average, while older individuals aged 75 and over spared twice as much as the youngsters did, averaging at 4.5 hours per day. Similarly, other activities such as reading, relaxing and thinking were not nearly spent time by younger generation, accounting for around 25-30 minutes on average, compared to that of older ones whose figures made up around 1 hour daily.
Focusing on the other exercises, the amount of time dedicated to socializing/communicating was quite identical, amounting to approximately an hour per day. However, juveniles obviously spent more hours on computer, such as games or other leisure activities, at just over 1 hour, compared to those of older ones. Likewise, figures for sport activities, and recreation were at about 30 minutes for youngsters and around 15 minutes for older generation.
