The following pie charts show the results of a survey into the most popular leisure activities in the United States of America in 1999 and 2009

The pie charts illustrate different extra-curricular activities which are famous among the public of the United States of America from a survey in the years 1999 and 2009.

Overall

, it is evident that no matter what the year was, walking and soccer always remained the favourite pastimes for a large proportion of the population. It is noticeable that most of the popular leisure activities remained the same in both years.

To begin

with, in 1999, a huge part of the population favoured walking, playing soccer and performing aerobics in their free time.

However

, there was a clear change in preferences in 2009. Though walking dominated in the survey, it decreased slightly by 2%. The favouritism for soccer increased by 1%, which was almost negligible,

while

, the number of people doing aerobics had fallen down to 4% from 13%.

In addition

to

this

, yoga was taken down from the list by 2009 and was replaced by weightlifting.

Moreover

, swimming

also

gained a lot of popularity as a hobby among people by 9% in 2009. Other activities

such

as bicycling and jogging were reduced by 4% each, and camping increased by about 1% which is not considerably high.