The given illustration depicts the proportion of participants in outdoor activities in Australia in 1997, 2001 and 2007.
Overall, it can be observed that most people in Australia have picnicking meanwhile horse riding was not so common in that times. Additionally, walking was witnessed to has a downward trend and water activities had shot up though camping and cycling had no significant alters.
Looking at the graph, it is immediately clear that picnicking was the activity whose percentage was peaked at over 63 percent in 2001. Moreover, between 2001 and 2007, the amount of people started to fell dramatically under 60 percent. In contrast, horse riding, whose percentage was the lowest among the outdoor activities, was experienced a plateau from 1997 to 2007 and reached at more than 3 percent.
Concerning the reports of walking and water activities, in 1997, walking had its largest percentage, which was 60 percent whereas there was nearly 40 percent of people who participated in water activities. Subsequently, during 2001, water activities’ surpassed the walking’s and remained in approximately 58 percent while there was a sharp drop of walking in 2007. Furthermore, the proportion of camping and biking groups had the same number in 1997, which was around 23 percent. However, in 2001, the percentage of camping exceeded the cycling by 2 percent and they reached the same point in 2007 at 25 percent.