This graphs shows the types of activities done by the elderly people in their free time from 1980s to the present in the United states.
The given line graph illustrates the proportion of entertainment activities that are done by elderly people including reading, hiking theatre, watching
tv
, and surfing the internet in their free time from the 1980s to the modern times.
Looking from an overall
perspective, it is readily apparent that watching tv
has been the most likely trend among older, followed by hiking which has been increasing sharply, while
the other three trends were almost unchanged throughout the data.
In the first year, watching tv
stood exactly at 60 per cent
which was the highest number, then
it gradually went up by 10 per cent
until the 2000s before decreasing to around an insignificant minority in the 2010s. Likewise
, hiking, which started the period at precisely 20, dramatically grew to 80 per cent
which overtook tv
.
In terms of theatre, although
it began at 50 per cent
, this
figure dropped by 20 per cent
till the 1990s before a little recovery. Next,
reading fluctuated the line from the 1980s to the 2000s, and it suddenly rose by 40 per cent
from 20 to 60.
Lastly
, surfing the internet, which was the smallest figure until the 2000s, showed a huge growth which climbed approximately 35 per cent
in the final year surveyed.Submitted by Zolboo on
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