The given bar chart illustrates the proportions of Australian males and females, from various age groups, who participated in regular physical exercises throughout the year 2010. Overall, women’s percentages have always been greater than those of men, except for the young adult age group (15 to 24 years).
Over the first three groups, a main trend of males’ percentage declination can be noticed, whereby the graph illustrates that men represent 52.8% of participants (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 exercising has 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 participating in physical activities as they grow older. To illustrate further, 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 years, their percentage peaked at 53.3%; however, in the same age group, men’s numbers had recovered with a sharp surge from 39.5% (of the previous age group) to 43.1%. On top of that, men’s numbers had increased for the last two age groups, while women’s percentages had diminished, 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%.