The bar chart illustrates the proportion of Australian males and females across six different
age
groups who engaged in regular physical activity in 2010.
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Overall
, a higher percentage of Linking Words
women
participated in regular physical activity than Use synonyms
men
in almost all Use synonyms
age
groups, except for the youngest Use synonyms
group
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While
male Linking Words
participation
declined with Use synonyms
age
before rising again in the oldest Use synonyms
group
, female Use synonyms
participation
remained relatively stable, with slight fluctuations.
In the 15–24 Use synonyms
age
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group
, Use synonyms
men
were more physically active than Use synonyms
women
, with 52.8% compared to 47.7%. Use synonyms
However
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this
trend reversed in all subsequent Linking Words
age
groups. Among those aged 25–34, the male Use synonyms
participation
rate dropped sharply to 42.2%, Use synonyms
whereas
the female rate increased slightly to 48.9%. A similar pattern was seen in the 35–44 Linking Words
group
, where only 39.5% of Use synonyms
men
exercised regularly compared with 52.5% of Use synonyms
women
— the largest gender gap in the chart.
For the 45–54 and 55–64 Use synonyms
age
categories, the female Use synonyms
participation
rate remained above 50%, at 53.3% and 53% respectively, Use synonyms
while
male rates were lower at 43.1% and 45.1%. In the oldest Linking Words
group
(65 and over), the rates for both genders became almost identical, at 47.1% for Use synonyms
women
and 46.7% for Use synonyms
men
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