The table compares how many hours per year people in Someland, grouped by age, spend on six different leisure activities.
Overall, watching TV/videos is by far the most time-consuming pursuit in every age bracket, peaking among teenagers. By contrast, activities that typically involve larger groups, including socialising with four or more people and group exercise, decline markedly with age, with the latter disappearing entirely in the 60+. Additionally, smaller-scale socialising and individual exercise are most popular in middle adulthood.
In terms of screen-based entertainment, teenagers devote 1,200 hours annually to TV/videos, a figure that drops sharply to a low of 400 hours in the 30s before climbing steadily to 1,100 hours in the oldest group. Cinema-going is relatively minor throughout, falling from 100 hours among teens to just 25 hours in the 40s and 50s, then recovering to 75 hours for people in their 70s and above.
Turning to social and physical activities, time spent socialising with four or fewer people rises from 150 hours in the teens and 20s to a peak of 300 hours in the 30s, then eases to 200 hours in later life. The opposite pattern is seen for larger gatherings, 350 hours in the teens and 20s versus only 25 hours from the 50s onwards. Group exercise similarly halves from 450 hours in the teens to 200 in the 30s and falls to zero after the 50s, whereas individual exercise reaches 200 hours in both the 30s and 40s, dips to 50 in the 50s, and rebounds to 150 in the oldest cohort.