the chart shows the percentage of males and females who were overweight in Australia from 1980 and 2010

The chart compares the proportion of

males

and

females

diagnosed with

obesity

in Australia between 1980 and 2010.

Overall

,

males

are more likely to be overweight than

females

throughout the whole examined period. There were increasing rates of

obesity

for both

males

and

females

until 2000

while

the percentage of

males

started to decline slightly and that of

females

remained stable in 2010. Starting with the graph of

males

, the rate of

obesity

rose a little from 40% in 1980 to just below 50% in 1990 when the gap between

males

and

females

. shrinks the most.

Then

, It grew more dramatically in 2000 reaching approximately 65%

although

it experienced a drop in 2010 for the first time as it hit just above 60%, which is still higher than in 1980 and 1990. Turning to the

obesity

rates of

females

, they had been slightly lower than those of

males

for 30 years. Indeed, the percentage of

females

is lower by nearly 10% with just above 30% in 1980. In 1990,

females

also

experienced a radical increase with about 45% like

males

as the proportions of

males

still excelled those of

females

.

Moreover

, their

obesity

rates continued to rise until the graph

finally

reached a peak at over 50% in 2000 and remained unchanged until 2010.