This statistic presents the percentage of students in Canada who reported that they had been physically active seven days over a typical week for at least 60 minutes per day in 2018, by grade and gender. It was found that 26 percent of boys in grade 10 stated they were physically active every day during a typical week for at least one hour, compared to 13 percent of girls.
Percentage of Canadian students who stated they were physically active every day of a typical week for at least 60 minutes per day in 2018, by grade and gender
Adapted from Statistics Canada, The Health of Canadian Youth: Findings from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study, page 46, 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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