The table below shows the participayion of people over 15 in selected sports and phusical recreation activities by gender in Australia during the period 2011-12.

The multiple bar chart illustrates the percentage of Australian people who regularly did physical activity in 2010, compared by gender in each

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group. The

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groups are 15 to 24, 25 to 34, 35 to 44, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and more than equal to 65.

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, the graph showed that Australian women were developing more interest in sports than men. The female proportion outweighed the male in all

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categories, except for teenagers (15 to 24) who were slightly dominated by males in the given period. Among the groups that were dominated by

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, the

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bracket of 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 35 to 44 had the biggest portion, with 53.3%, 53%, and 52%, respectively.

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, the male proportion for those brackets was 43.1%, 45.1%, and 39.5%, consecutively.

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, at the

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of 25 to 34,

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proportion was 48.9% and males at 42.2%.

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, for the

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65 and over, the difference was less than 1%, but still dominated by

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.

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, when it comes to the

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of 15 to 24, the male percentage surpassed the female with 52.8%, with

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only at 47.7%.