Gul Mohammad Ahmadi - 5

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

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph above illustrates information about leisure activities of the senior citizens in the US, who were investing their spare time in reading, hiking, theatre, watching TV, and surfing the Internet between 1980's and 2010's, a more than three decades of time period. In general, the percentage of surfing on the internet, hiking, and watching TV significantly increased, while the number of people spending time on reading, and theatre went down fluctually from 1980's to 2010's.

As it can be clearly seen from the line chart, the percentage of surfing on the Internet steadily increased, approximately from 5% to 15%, during 20 years from 1980's to 2000's. Despite the fact that the rate of surfing on the internet rapidly rose to the similar level of that of reading, it did not last for a long term in 1980's. In the following year, the proportion of readers shrank strongly around 40% to 20% in 1990's. Afterwards, both activities, reading and surfing on the Internet, took same patterns, strating from 15%, 20% to 50%, 60% from 2000's to 2010's

According to the graph, between the years 1980's and 2000's, watching TV was highly well-known among the elderly people. It had increasing rate of followers from 60% to 70% in that period. Thereafter, the number of watching TV slowly dropped. On the other hand, the percentage of hiking launched from 20% to 80%. It had the highest members in all over the 30 years. Eventually, the percentage of followers of the theater shrank suddenly from 50 % to 30 % in in 1990's. After this period, it grew gradually from 30% to 45% in 2010's.