The pie chart illustrates the proportion of time that working adults spend on various activities in different countries between 1958 and 2008.
Overall, working consistently recorded the higher proportion than other categories. While relaxing, other interests, and travel to work increased slightly over the period. By contrast, time spend on going out and sleeping experienced a sharp decline throughout the period.
In 1958, the figure for working, relaxing at home, other interests, and travel to work experienced a significant growth, the former increased significantly, reaching a peak of around 42% from 1958 to 2008, the latter rose considerably from roughly 8% in 1958 to about 13% in 2008. followed by other interests saw a slight rise from 6% to 8% in 2008. However, the figure for travel to work showed a sharp increase from 2% in 1958 to around 8% in 2008.
By contrast, the figure for going out and sleeping experienced a significant fall, the former declined dramatically, from 19% in 1958 to approximately 6% in 2008. the latter decreased sharply, a figure that then fell from around 32% to just 25% by the end of the period.
