The bar chart below shows the percentage of Australian men and women in different age groups who did regular physical activity in 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides an overview of the proportion of Australian men and women across various

age

groups who engaged in regular physical activity in the year 2010.

Overall

, it is evident that female

participation

rates generally exceeded those of males, except in the youngest

age

group.

To begin

with, in the

age

group 15-24, male

participation

stood at 52.8%, slightly surpassing that of females at 47.7%.

However

,

this

pattern reversed in subsequent

age

brackets. From ages 25 to 44, male engagement in physical activity steadily declined, reaching its lowest point of 39.5% among those aged 35-44.

In contrast

, female

participation

showed a gradual increase across these

age

groups, peaking at 50.3% for those aged 45-54. Moving to the older

age

categories, both genders exhibited a decline in physical activity levels. Males aged 55-64 and over 65 reported

participation

rates of 45.1% and approximately 46.7% respectively,

while

females in these

age

brackets showed rates of around 47.1% and 53%, with the latter being the highest recorded among all

age

groups.