The bar chart 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 women and men doing regular exercise in divergent

age

groups in the year 2010.

Overall

,

it is clear that

in all

age

groups,

females

stood the first rank except in the

ages

15 to 24 as the youngest group.

In addition

, the figures for

males

and

females

who did regular physical activity were almost the same at the

ages

65 and over. The

percentage

of women who did regular physical activity was higher than that of men,

while

in the youngest

age

group (15 to 24), the number of

males

who did regular exercise was almost 5% more than that of

females

with 47.7%. It is noteworthy that the biggest difference between the figures of

females

and

males

who exercised regularly was in the

ages

35 to 44 with 12%. By increasing

age

, the

percentage

of men who did exercise regularly decreased to 39.5% in the

ages

35 to 44. After these

ages

, the figures for

males

increased slightly to 46.7% which was approximately the same as that for

females

at the

ages

65 and over.

In addition

, the

percentage

of women rose gradually until the

ages

45 to 54 with 53.3% which was the highest

percentage

between

males

and

females

among all

age

groups and

then

declined at the

ages

above 65.