The chart gives information about the percentage of overwight men and women in australia from 1980 to2010

The give bar chart illustrates and compares the proportion of overweight australian between two genders in a thirty-year period from 1980 to 2010.

Overall, it can be seen that the rate of overweighted men exceeded its counterpart of women in all four decades. Reasonably, the highest proportion of overweight, which recorded in 2000, belonged to men, and the lowest one, which documented in 1980, belonged to women.

as for men, the rate of people was overweight increased gradually from 45% in 1980 to over 50% in 1990 before witnessing an upward trend in 1990s, in which noted an significant increase of 20% until reached its peak at 70% in 2000. This is also the highest number had been recoreded in the comparison to its female counterpart throughout the period. There was a slightly decrease in the next ten years when the percentage of overweight autralian men accounted for approximately 78%.

In term of women, the 1980s saw the lowest percentage of overweight rate with only 30%. There was no fluctuation but an increase by 10% to 40% and 50% in 1990 and 2000, respectively. 2010 witnessed the same pattern with 2000 when the rate of overweighted autralian women made up for a half of the autralian women