The graph below shows how elderly people in united states spent their free time between 1980 to 2010

The line graph given compared five activities United State elderly individuals usually do their free time between 1980 and 2010.

Overall, every activities have increased in proportion with some fluctuation in between accept for theatre which dip down to 30% in 1990 haven't recovered since. Among all of these hiking have had the most significant change, increasing 10% every decade.

Regarding the popularity in 1980, watching tv is the most popular with 60% of the elderly take part in this activities. this is follow by theatre with 50%, hiking and reading with their figure ranging from 20% to 30%. And the lowest is surfing the internet with 5%.

Thereafter, hiking have skyrocketed astronomically to 80% quadruple itself and become the most participated activities. watching tv also increased steadily but hit a decline in 2010. Both surfing the internet and reading have a sharp increase from around 20% to 50% and 60% respectively. And theatre have a slight decrease of 5%