The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates the proportions of

time

spent by elderly people in the US for the period from the 1980s to 2010s on different activities.

Overall

, it is obvious that only the

time

spent in theatres decreased

while

for reading, hiking, watching

TV

, and surfing the internet, it increased.

Additionally

, watching

TV

was the most popular activity until it was replaced by hiking in the 2000s. Regarding the graph,

while

the

time

spent on hiking rose dramatically from one to four-fifths during the given period, figures for surfing the internet grew slowly from around 5 in the 1980s to above 10

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in the 2000s after which they rocketed to 50

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at the end

of the period. The proportion of the

time

spent on reading was almost a third at the beginning and after hitting a low of 20

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in the 2000s, sharply climbed to 60

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in the 2010s.

On the other hand

, changes in

time

spent on watching

TV

and theatre were less dramatic. Figures for watching

TV

rose slowly from 60

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in the 1980s and after reaching a peak of 70

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in the 2000s, decreased at the same pace to around two-thirds. The

time

spent in theatres fell by about 5

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overall

, touching the lowest point of 30

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in the 1990s.