The given table represents the percentage of people in 8 various countries engaged in 7 different pastimes. The vertical axis depicts countries and the horizontal one illustrates kinds of pastimes and percents of people, who are keen on them. The age of people ranges from 30 to 50 years old.
Overall, the most favourite pastime with people in different countries is reading. Less common activities are doing sport, watching TV, listening to music and doing some hobbies. Beach and sleep are the least popular ones.
In detail, residents of all 8 countries like reading, especially, the Japanese (62%). People, who read much less than people in Japan, are the Americans, the Australians and the Canadians- they make up 15%. The Chinese are devoted to hobbies most of all, gaining 50%, which is higher by 30% than the French. 30% of Australia’s population like doing sports activities more than others. However, the difference with other countries is not so big as Korea, the least one interested in sport, has 21% of amateurs.
Однако просмотр телевизора сильно отличается от других занятий. Самый высокий показатель наблюдается в Австралии (65 %), а самый низкий – в Китае (15 %). На самом деле на пляже проводит время не так много людей. Только 30 % австралийцев и 30 % американцев проводят там время. В целом сон – не самое популярное времяпрепровождение. Самый высокий процент людей, которые спят в свободное время, – в Австралии. Самые низкие показатели – в Канаде и США (2%).