{"id":22624,"date":"2017-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/sports-practice-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:47:11","slug":"sports-practice-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/sports-practice-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports practice in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, <strong>over 20 million people aged 3 and over practiced one or more sports<\/strong> continuously (24.4%) or occasionally (9.8%). The rate of those who practiced sports on the total population of 3 years and over was 34.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Among men, 29.5% practiced sports continuously and 11.7% occasionally. For women the percentages were lower, respectively 19.6% and 8.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Continued sports practice increased over time for both males and females and was widespread in all age classes. It passed from 15.9% in 1995 to 22.4% in 2010 and to 24.5% in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sports practice was high among young people aged 11-14 years old (70.3%, 61% continuously and 9.3% occasionally) and showed the tendency to decrease with age.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of people practicing sports was highest in the North-east area of the country (40.4%), followed by North-west (39.5%), Centre (35.3%), South and Islands areas (26.2%).<\/p>\n<p>The most popular sports were:<br \/>\ngymnastics, aerobics, fitness and physical education (25.2% of people who practices sports, 5 million 97 thousand people), football (23%, 4 million 642 thousand people) and water sports (21.1%, 4 million 265 thousand people). Swimming was the most common sport among children aged 3-10 years old (43.1%), football among young adults under 35 (33.6%), gymnastics, aerobics, fitness and physical culture among adults up to 59 years old and over 60 years old (27.4%).<\/p>\n<p>26.5% of the population did not practice a sport but did physical activity, like long walking or cycling, gardening, etc. (15 million 640 thousand people).<\/p>\n<p>Sedentary people, i.e. those who declared that they did not practice any sport or physical activity in leisure time, were over 23 million (39.1% of the population), this rate increased with age and almost half of elderly people aged 65 and over was sedentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, over 20 million people aged 3 and over practiced one or more sports continuously (24.4%) or occasionally (9.8%). 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