The bar chart illustrates the proportion of young people in a specific European nation who participated in four distinct leisure activities in 2009, categorized by three different age groups.
Overall, watching television was the most popular pastime for the majority of children across the age brackets. It is also noticeable that while the popularity of playing video games declined as children grew older, the opposite trend was true for bicycle riding.
Looking at the screen-based activities, watching TV attracted the highest engagement from the youngest cohort (5-8 years old) at nearly 95%. This figure witnessed a slight drop but remained stable at exactly 80% for both the 9-11 and 12-15 age demographics. In contrast, video games saw lower participation rates. Roughly 60% of children aged 5-8 and 9-11 played video games, but this figure plummeted to its lowest point on the chart, at just 40%, among the oldest teenagers.
Turning to the remaining activities, reading comics showed remarkable stability across all age groups, fluctuating minimally between 62% for the youngest children and 65% for the older two groups. Meanwhile, cycling patterns experienced a significant shift; approximately 67% of 5-8 year olds and 60% of 9-11 year olds rode bikes, but participation skyrocketed to just over 80% for the 12-15 cohort, matching television as their preferred activity.