The graph below illustrates the proportion of young people across three age groups in a specific European nation who engaged in four types of activities in 2009.
Overall, watching television emerged as the most popular pastime. On the contrary, playing video games recorded the lowest levels of participation among the tracked demographics.
In terms of most highly favoured activities, watching telivision has gained more popularity from the youngest children of the 5-8 years age group at nearly 95%. This figure slightly dropped but remained constant at 80% for both 9-11 years and 12-15 years age demographics. Conversely, Playing video games was the least favoured pastime at 56% for 5-8 years children. The numbers have further dropped to 54% in the 9-11 year olds and it can be clearly seen that, the figure has drastically dropped to 40% in the 12-15 years category.
Turning to the remaining activities, reading comics has maintained remarkable stability across all age groups, fluctuating minimally between 62% for the youngest age group and 65% for the older two groups. Meanwhile, riding bikes experienced a significant shift; approximately 67% for 5-8 year olds and 60% of 9-11 year olds rode bikes, but participation skyrocketed to just over 80% for the 12-15 year olds, matching television as their preferred activity.