Share of individuals living a sedentary lifestyle in Italy 2020-2021, by gender

Between 2020 and 2021, approximately 31.5 percent of Italian adults were living a sedentary lifestyle. A sedentary lifestyle is here defined as not doing any physical activity in leisure time and not having a job, or having a sedentary job, or a job that even if requires physical effort is not continuous over time. This statistic shows differences in this figure in terms of gender. As of the survey period, the share of female individuals declaring not to do physical activity regularly exceeded the share of male ones by 8.5 percentage points. This figure shows the share of individuals living a sedentary lifestyle in Italy between 2020 and 2021, by gender