The bar chart illustrates the average amount of time per day that people in the US spent in leisure and sport activities contain youngsters from 15-19 and elderly from 75 plus in 2015.
Overall , it can be seen that both the youngest and oldest populations spent most their free time watching TV . While the old spent more time than young watching TV , reading , relaxing and thinking , the opposite was true for socializing , communicating , playing games and sports .
In 2015 , the old spent more time than young for watching TV , which was 4.5 hours , roughly 2.5 hours respectively . People aged 75 plus also spent more time reading , at 1 hours per day , compared to the younger group , at 0.2 hours . There was only aroungd 0.1 hours daily that younger group spent time relaxing and thinking , while the older group spent more time for that at 0.6 hours everyday .
Regarding socializing and communicating , both elderly and youngsters spent at roughly more 0.5 hours on a daily basis . The young group spent over tiwice as much time on the computer than the older group , at an everage of 1.1 and 0.5 hours respectively . Sport , exercise and recreation were also favored more by the youngsters at roughly 0.5 hours every day , while the old group spent just around 0.2 hours per day .