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Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic physical activity — PA‑06 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse

Most Recent Data:
23.9 percent (2021)

Target:
30.6 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
26.1 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 were physically active for at least 60 minutes on all 7 days of the past week in 2017

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Adolescents meeting Federal physical activity guidelines, 2017-2021
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017 2019 2021
Total
26.1
CI 24.1 / 28.3
SE 1.044
23.2
CI 21.9 / 24.6
SE 0.654
23.9
CI 22.8 / 25.0
SE 0.556