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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑08 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
16.0 percent (2021)

Target:
24.1 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
20.0 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 were physically active for at least 60 minutes on all 7 days of the past week and participated in muscle-strengthening activity on 3 or more days of the past week in 2017

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Adolescents meeting Federal guidelines for aerobic physical activity and muscle-strengthening activity, 2017-2021
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2017 2019 2021
Total
20.0
CI 17.2 / 23.0
SE 1.433
16.5
CI 14.6 / 18.6
SE 0.994
16.0
CI 14.2 / 17.9
SE 0.892