The bar chart delineates the proportion of distinct hobbies, which were preferred by children across three age groups (from 5 to 15 years old) in a European country in 2009. These activities include watching TV, reading comics, playing video games and riding bikes.
Overall, while watching TV emerged as the leading category, riding bikes followed closely behind it. It can be seen that reading comics and playing video games trailed noticeably behind them.
In 2009, the percentage of 5-8 years old children, who watched TV, made up a greater share among all categories, peaking at 95%. It is noticeable that this hobby showed the same proportion of kids, who were older at 80%. For teenagers most preferred activity was riding bikes, accounting for 84%, which allowed them to close the gap with television . As regards to children from 5 to 8 and 9 to 11 years old, their percentage of interest in this category stood at 62% and 54% respectively.
Turning to remaining activities, reading comic books showed almost no difference among all age groups, standing between 60% and 65%. In terms of playing video games, it was significantly more popular among the youngest children, who were from 5 to 8 years old, representing approximately 80%. The interest of teenagers hit a low of 37%, which was the lowest proportion.