The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australian men and women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australian men and women in

different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and

make comparisons where relevant.
The graph illustrates the differences take account into people in Australia did exercise regularly between different gender and
age
groups in 2010. 
Overall
, it is noticeable that a relatively high proportion of females did regular physical activity than
males
, except young
males
, which had the highest percentage among whole
age
groups. With regard to
males
, 52.8% of young
men
did regular exercise, which was the highest proportion among
males
.
However
, when
men
reach 25-34, it was seen a drastic drop to 42.2% and gradually decreased, reaching its bottom at 39.5% at the
age
of 35-44. The situation
then
twisted, the proportion rose steadily to 46.7% at 65 above, but was still 6% less than that of
men
at 15-24. In terms of the percentage of women who did exercise regularly, there was only 47.1% of them at 15-24, 5% less than that of
men
in the same
age
group.
By contrast
, it
then
rose consistently and reached 52.5% in the
age
group of 35-44, approximately 13% higher than that of
men
.
Although
the percentage of that had remained above 50% until 55-64 years old, the figure for women at 65 or above fell considerably to 47.1%, relatively at the same level as that of
men
.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Percentage
  • Australian men
  • Australian women
  • Age groups
  • Regular physical activity
  • Participated
  • Increased
  • Decreased
  • Proportion
  • Physically active
  • Gender difference
  • Engaged
  • Exercise
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