The bar chart below shows percentages of three groups of Australian children taking part in four kinds of activities in 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives the information on proportions of

children

ranging from 5 to 16 in Australia participating in four different activities, including watching TV, reading, art, and riding a bike in 2012.

Overall

, we clearly see that watching TV was the most popular activity among the three different groups of

children

,

while

art attracts relatively fewer kids. As regarded as the first, the percentage of watching TV ranges from a low of 96% between 5 to 8

years

old to a high of 99% between 12 to 16

years

old, with some

children

aged 9 to 11

years

old at 97% in between. For art, there are more

children

from 5 to 8

years

old than those from 9 to 11

years

old who loved it, and the figure for it was 60% in comparison with 57%.

Additionally

,

it is clear that

the same proportion accounting for 65% of those youth from 9 to 11

years

old and from 12 to 16

years

old chose reading,

whereas

62% of youth between 5 to 8 took part in the reading activity.

Finally

, there was 81% of youth between 12 to 16 engaged in riding a bike,

while

78% of

children

between 5 to 8 were in the same category, followed by those from 9 to 11 stood at about 62%.