The table offers insights into the proportion of adults living in cities and countryside engaged in various leisure activities between 1990 and 2010.
Overall, there were notable increases in all activities chosen by rural and urban people except for animated play and playing. Moreover, reading emerged as the leading in both regions over the period surveyed.
Regarding adults living in cities, the percentage of people who took part in reading and photography witnessed a significant increase. While the former started at 61% in 1990 and surged to 78% in 2010, the latter represented 7% participants before undergoing a notable rise to 17% over the interval surveyed. Conversely, the proportion of playing indicated a decline from 21% to 14% while animated play remained unchanged at 10% during the surveyed period.
As far as residents in rural areas are concerned, animated play was the only material that experienced an decrease from 18% to 14% between 1990 and 2010. In addition, while reading revealed a slight increase from 71% to 78% from 1990 to 2010, photography was reported to start at 14% in 1990 before rising to reach a new height by 24% after twenty years.