Band 6+: The chart below shows the proportion of males and females in Malaysia who commonly do physical activity in 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where necessary.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of Malaysian citizen who exercises regularly by gender across the age group in the year 2010.

Generally, the chart shows that women demonstrated a higher percentage of participation in regular physical activity for all age group with the notable exception for the 15-24 age bracket, where men outnumbered women counterparts and reached its highest percentage.

Regarding men participation, the 15-24 age group was the only bracket with more men than women with a roughly percentage that surpassed 50%. Meanwhile, the men citizen in the 35 to 44 age group demonstrated the lowest number that under 40% across the age bracket.

Looking specifically at women exercised percentage, a higher proportion of females performed more regular physical activity than men across five of the six age group. Additionally, women around adult to middle age group (aged 35 – 64) depicted the top three highest percentage that all surpassed 50% with women aged between 45 and 54 peaked at the highest point. Notably, both men and women shared a relatively equal regular physical activity percentage at the 65 and over age bracket at an approximate percentage of 45.