The histogram and bar graph illustrate how long people in the UK spend on managing their health and wellbeing. Information is broken down by activity in the circle graph and by both age group and gender in the diagram.
The pie chart demonstrates people spend only a small minority of their total time working out or on other pursuits related to their well-being and fitness – three and four per cent respectively. The rest is divided between sleeping, at 32%, and other activities.
The bar chart, meanwhile, shows that time spent on endeavours such as exercise and meal preparation varies widely by demographic. Up to the age of 24, men spend faintly more of their time on fitness and well-being than women, an average of 10 hours, though this trend is reversed in those aged between 25 and 54. Men and women aged 18-24 invest the highest percentage of their time in health and wellbeing, an average of 12.5 hours – slightly more than those aged between 25 and 39. People aged from 40 to 54 spend considerably less of their time – 9 units – on health and wellbeing, precisely the same proportion on average as those in both the youngest and oldest age groups.
Overall, time spent on health and fitness peaked between the ages of 18 and 39, but only occupied a small amount of people’s time.