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Reduce the proportion of adults who do no physical activity in their free time — PA‑01 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change

Most Recent Data:
26.3 percent (2022) *

Target:
21.8 percent  *

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
26.1 percent of adults aged 18 years and over engaged in no leisure-time physical activity in 2020  *

Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

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Adults engaging in no leisure-time physical activity, 2020-2022 * 
(percent)
Decrease desired

Population 2020 2022
Total
26.1
CI 25.3 / 26.9
SE 0.421
26.3
CI 25.6 / 27.1
SE 0.406