The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australian men and women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010.

The bar chart compares the percentages of Australian

men

and women doing regular physical activity in six

age

categories in the year 2010.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the rank first of doing regular exercise allocates to

females

in all

age

groups,

while

in

ages

15 to 24, males stand first.

Moreover

, the proportion of males and

females

doing exercise regularly is almost the same in

ages

65 and above. In the

ages

15 to 24, the figure for

men

who exercise regularly was 52.8% and stood at first rank,

while

that for

females

had little difference by a narrow margin of 5%.

In addition

, with increasing

age

, the percentage of

men

who are doing physical activity regularly decreased to 39.5%,

however

after the

age

of 44, it increased slightly. There was the biggest disparity in the figure for males and

females

in

ages

35 to 44 with 12% and in

this

group, the figure for women was more than

men

.

Furthermore

, the highest share among

age

groups consisted of

females

who are 45 to 54 years old with 53.3%. Needless to say, the share of

men

and female doing physical activity constituted approximately the same with about 47%.