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

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and

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

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,

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were more likely to be found overweight than

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, with a higher

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of overweight

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than that of

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shown each

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

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

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overweight, almost half of their male counterparts’

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at 52%. In the next

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

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

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. The overweight

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surged by another 20% for

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in 2000,

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the change doubled the amount for

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

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the female

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remained the same as the

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, the

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for

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reduced by 5%, at 49% for

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and 65% for

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. 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

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compared with the beginning.