The bar chart illustrates the average number of hours per day that individuals in the United States, aged 15–19 and 75 and over, spent on various leisure and sports activities in 2015.
Overall, older adults tended to spend significantly more time watching television and reading, while teenagers devoted more hours to using computers and participating in physical activities.
Watching television was by far the most time-consuming activity for both age groups, but particularly for seniors, who spent about 4.5 hours per day on it, compared to around 2.5 hours among teenagers. A similar pattern can be observed in reading and relaxing: elderly people spent roughly 1 hour reading and about 0.6 hours relaxing or thinking, while the younger group dedicated just over 0.2 hours to each of these activities.
In contrast, teenagers spent significantly more time using computers for leisure, with figures reaching around 1.2 hours per day, nearly double that of older adults. Physical activity also followed the same trend, as those aged 15–19 spent approximately 0.6 hours on sports and recreation, compared to under 0.3 hours for seniors. Interestingly, both groups spent almost the same amount of time socializing and communicating, at about 0.7 hours daily.