The graph illustrates the various activities done by aged people (reading, hiking, theatre, watching tv, surfing the internet) in the USA to spend their leisure time from 1980 to 2010.

The line chart compares data about the proportion of 5 different activities like reading, hiking, theatre, watching TV, and surfing the internet that were done by the old generation in their free time in the USA between the 1980s and the 2010s.

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, it was important that the trends of all activities other than theatre increased over the period of 2 decades.

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the diagram, at the start, watching TV, the most popular item among elderly people in the 1980s, hit 60%;

then

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it rose moderately and reached the vertex at 70% in the 2000s;

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, it reduced to nearly 65% in the 2010s.

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, theatre scored half in the 1980s;

thereafter

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, it declined significantly to the minimum point of 30% in the 1990s;

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it climbed somewhat to 45% in the 2010s. The graph demonstrates that reading, the third factor, recorded at 30% in the beginning;

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it rose to 40%, the same portion as hiking, in the 1990s, after that, it dipped sharply and touched the nadir at one-fifth in the 2000s.

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, it grew enormously to 60%. Hiking ent up overwhelmingly from 20% in the 1980s to 80%, the first element, in the 2010s.

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, Surfing the Internet reported a tiny fraction in the 1980s. Later it leapt to 50% in 2010s.