The bar chart gives information about the proportion of Australian residents who are prone to obese by genders in the 1980-2010 period.
Overall, it is clear that the number of overweight people experienced a upward trend year by year. Besides, the percentage of men who were overweight was higher than that of women.
In 1980, while precisely 40% of Australian males confronted with obese, that of females who lived in Australia was only 32%. After 10 years, in 1990, people who dwelled in Australia witnessed an increasing trend of the percentage of obese men to approximately 45%, compared to roughly 22% of women.
The number of Australian men who are overweight had a significant growth in 2000, at over 60%, which was higher than that of women, at around 55%. Nevertheless, the figures slightly dropped in the next 10 years, in 2010. The proportion of fat men in Australia was exactly 60% in 2010, compared to that of women, at nearly 55%.
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