The graph below shows how elderly people in the United States spent their free time between 1980 and 2010.

The given line chart compares data about the number of old people who lived in the USA who spent their spare time on 5 different items from 1980 to 2010.

Overall

,

although

, all of

categories

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the categories

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except hiking

to

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have wave trends, all of them increased.

According to

the plot, in 1980 most of the fact that elderly inhabitants who lived in the United

Stated

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preferred spending time watching TV;

then

this

figure reached a peak in the 2000s at 70%;

however

, decreased to 65% in 2010. Theatre, which is the second

one

, started at 50% after that touched the minimum at 30% in the 1990s, yet

this

motivation climbed slightly to 45%. Reading, the third

one

, rapidly fluctuated because at the beginning it was 30%;

then

in 2000, it reached the lowest point at 20%;

nevertheless

,

this

line went up enormously to 60%. The diagram demonstrates the fourth

one

was hiking

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had a drastic increase from 20% to 80%, ranking first in

2010s

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.

Also

, the

last

one

was surfing the Internet which grew

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direction at the start was 5%,

whereas

,

finally

, the proportion hit 50%.