The table below shows the percentage of adults in urban and rural areas who took part in four free time activities in 1990 and 2010. Summarise the information and compare where relevant, by selecting and reporting the key features.

The table below shows the percentage of adults in urban and rural areas who took part in four free time activities in 1990 and 2010. Summarise the information and compare where relevant, by selecting and reporting the key features.
The table presents the share of adults participating in different activities during their leisure
time
in urban and rural
areas
. It shows how much
people
spent their
time
reading, playing animated games, playing, and taking photographs in 1990 and 2010.
Overall
,
people
in urban
areas
increased proportionally more the amount of
time
they allocated to these activities between 1990 and 2010, narrowing the gap with rural
areas
.
Whereas
reading, animated plays, and photography became more popular over
time
,
time
spent playing fell in these 20 years. Regardless of the year, reading was the most popular activity performed both in urban and rural
areas
; more than 60% of
people
read during their free
time
.
Furthermore
,
this
percentage
grew
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has grown
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since 1990: 78% of
people
read in 2010,
whereas
61% and 71% did so in 1990. Another activity whose popularity boosted over
time
is photography. Its percentage increased from 7% and 14% to 17% and 24% in urban and rural
areas
, respectively. In general, three out of the four activities became more popular over
time
. The exception is playing, which
reduced
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reduces
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the number of
people
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Although
percentages tended to grow in both
areas
, they did it even more in urban
areas
. Specifically reading and photography increased more in these
last
.
As a result
, the gaps between these two zones decreased over
time
.
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