The chart below gives information about the percentages of overweight men and women in Australia between 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart compares Australian

males

and

females

in terms of each gender’s overweight proportion from 1980 to 2010.

Overall

,

males

were more likely to be found overweight than

females

, with a higher

ratio

of overweight

males

than that of

females

shown each

decade

. In 1980 and 2000, the differences between the two genders were the most noticeable,

while

in 1990 and 2010, the gaps narrowed. The year 1980 witnessed 28% of female Australian residents

were

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overweight, almost half of their male counterparts’

ratio

at 52%. In the next

decade

, from the year 1990, a 5% increase in overweight men and a 10% increase in the overweight

ratio

of women weakened the sheer contrast between the ratios found in the

last

decade

. The overweight

ratio

surged by another 20% for

males

in 2000,

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the change doubled the amount for

females

, bringing the difference between the two genders visible again. The difference reversed in 2010, distinctive from 1990,

while

the female

ratio

remained the same as the

last

decade

, the

ratio

for

males

reduced by 5%, at 49% for

females

and 65% for

males

. In conclusion, overweight problems became more prevalent among both men and women in Australia in these forty years, even though the difference in ratios between the two genders was less discerning in the

last

decade

compared with the beginning.