A participant is defined as an individual who took part in the activity at least once in the given year.
Number of survey participants from 2016 onwards: 24,134 (2016) / 30,999 (2017) / 20,069 (2018) / 18,000 (2019) / 18,000 (2020) / 18,000 (2021) / 18,000 (2022) / 18,000 (2023) / 18,000 (2024). Figures for earlier years were not provided by the source.
Figures prior to 2017 were taken from previous surveys.
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Physically inactive population share in the U.S. 2013-2024
In 2024, the share of the population in the United States who engaged in no physical activity dropped to ** percent. This continued the downward trend that began in 2019, whereby a smaller proportion of the U.S. population engaged in no physical activity in each subsequent year.
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