The chart illustrates how much time was spent per day in leisure and sports by youngest and oldest populations in the US in 2015.
Overall, younger people tended to spend time on gaming and sports, while the older mostly spent time reading and reflecting. In addition, watching TV was the most popular activity among the mentioned.
In 2015, the older population’s average time spent watching TV was 4.5 hours per day, higher than that of the younger by roughly 2 hours. What is more, standing at 1 hour, the older group dedicated 1.5 hours more on reading than the younger. A similar pattern was followed by relaxing and thinking, with the older population outweighed that of the younger population by 1 hour.
Meanwhile, the opposite was true for the remaining activities. A similar pattern was observed in the figures of playing games/ computer use for leisure, with the younger and older groups standing at 1.2 hours and 0.5 hours respectively. However, there was a slight difference of approximately 0.25 hours between time spent on socializing and communicating of both groups, with younger people dedicating 1.75 hours. Lastly, younger residents distributed 1.25 hours on sports, exercise and recreation, while the older only spent 0.25 hours.