Physical activity
Being active provides long term benefits for your heart
health and general health.
It helps control your weight, reduce blood pressure and
cholesterol and improve your mental health.
Physical activity levels in England and Scotland have increased
over the past decade. Despite this increase, physical activity
levels in the UK still remain low. Men in
Scotland exercise the most with 45 per cent exercising
above the recommended levels.
However, in Northern
Ireland the precentage meeting the recommended levels is just
33 per cent. The percentage of women meeting the recommended levels
is even lower, at 33 per cent in
Scotland and 22 per cent in
Wales.
There is a big difference in
physical activity levels by household income. A higher
percentage of those people who live in households with the highest
income are meeting recommended activity levels compared to those in
the lowest.
Downloads
Information on
behavioural risk factors, including physical activity levels
from Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010
Prevalence of physical activity by sex, country, 1997-2009, Eng,
Scotland and Wales
Percentage of households with car or van ownership, 1961-2009,
Great Britain
Prevalence of physical activity by sex and country, 1973-1993,
Great Britain and 1997-2009, England, Scotland and
Wales
Proportion of households with car or van ownership, 1961 to 2009,
Great Britain
Television ownership in private domestic households, 1961 to 2010,
United Kingdom
Television ownership in private domestic households, 1961-2010,
UK