The given bar charts illustrates the proportions of Australian males and females, from various age groups, who partcipated in regular physical excercises throughout the year 2010. Overall, women percentages had been always greater than that of men, except for the young adults age group (15 to 24 years).
Over the first three groups, a main trend of males percentages declination can be noticed, whereby the graph illustrates that men represents 52.8% of partcipators (of ages 15 to 24 ) in sports activity; however, this percentage had reduced by 10.65% for the following age group. Moreover, the number of men excercising had been falling sharply for the third age group, whereby the percentage of men reached its minimum with only 39.5% taking part in sports activities. In contrast to men, women exhibited the tendency of partcipating in physical activities, as they go older. To illustrate more, consider the rapid growth from 47.7% to 52.5% from the first to the third age group, respectively.
As women reached the age of 45 to 54 year, their percentages peaked at 53.3% ; however, in the same age group, men number had recovered back with a sharp surging from 39.5% ( of the previous age group) to 43.1%. On top of that, men numbers had increased for the last two age groups, while women percentages had demolished, whereby female percentages went down from 53.3% to 47.1% , which is the percentage of women aged 65 and over. It is noteworthy that men and women nearly reached parity in this age group, with only a slight difference of approximately 0.4%.