Table 3.

Physical activity and screen based sedentary behaviors (%) by region, country and gender

Region	Physical activity (1 hr for ≥ 5 days/week)		Vigorous physical activity (≥ 2 hr/week)		Television-viewing (≤ 2 hr/day)		Using electronic games (≤ 2 hr/day)		Using computer (≤ 2 hr/day)
Country	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
Non-European countries
Canada	62	49*	69	59*	54	61*	71	87*	74	69*
Israel¥	41†	24*	57†	36†*	48†	41*	56	73†*	67	63*
United States	62	46*	56	41*	62	60	82	93*	86	83*
Central-European countries
Austria	50	40*	57	42*	62	67*	72	88*	80	85*
Belgium, Fl	42	31*	70	52*	60	60	78	92*	77	77
Belgium, W¥	49†	42†*	69†	51†*	67	74*	77	85*	83	85
France	42	25*	65	42*	63	68*	80	94*	84	84
Germany	46	34*	69	56*	64	67*	75	90*	81	83*
Luxemburg	45	30*	73	56*	68	72*	79	91*	82	83
Netherlands	55	47*	82	72*	50	56*	63	90*	64	65
Switzerland	40	31*	80	60*	81	83	89	97*	88	92*
Southern-European countries
Croatia	58	40*	52	31*	46	50*	75	95*	88	90
Greece	44	28*	66	47*	52	47*	74	94*	90	96*
Italy	44	27*	62	43*	61	63	83	96*	91	92
Macedonia	49	39*	44	27*	56	55	74	88*	84	87*
Malta¥	40	30*	39†	24*	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	69	69
Portugal	42	18*	n.a.	n.a.	46	44	64	86*	77	78
Slovenia	46	33*	55	41*	61	67*	74	94*	83	84
Spain	46	34*	55	31*	64	67*	84	93*	89	90
Turkey	40	35*	45	25*	57	59*	78	92*	82	84*
Eastern-European countries
Bulgaria	51	39*	52	33*	40	34*	56	82*	70	76*
Czech Rep.	52	37*	44	24*	58	62*	69	93*	86	86
Hungary	48	33*	57	41*	60	64*	76	92*	82	88*
Poland	48	35*	49	30*	45	59*	64	92*	70	79*
Romania	41	23*	45	25*	60	48*	55	76*	76	84*
Russia	35	23*	49	35*	51	50	70	87*	88	91*
Slovakia	67	51*	74	54*	43	44	65	89*	83	87*
Ukraine	53	36*	49	32*	46	43	75	92*	88	95*
Northern-European countries
Denmark	55	50*	80	73*	60	64*	68	92*	80	83*
England¥	54†	38*	63†	48†*	63	69†*	75†	92†*	75	75
Estonia	45	34*	52	43*	49	50	59	86*	68	70
Finland	58	50*	71	69*	72	73	76	94*	83	83
Greenland¥	50	38*	55	41†*	66	64	81	93†*	89	88
Iceland	52	47*	60	56*	64	71*	73	97*	74	77*
Ireland¥	67	52†*	62†	49†*	62	65*	85†	95†*	93	95
Latvia	54	40*	51	32*	45	50*	65	91*	77	75
Lithuania¥	47†	35*	51†	31†*	45	43	68	92*	88†	90†
Norway¥	47†	39*	72†	67†*	66	64	74†	93*	79	74†*
Scotland¥	57†	39*	60†	48†*	53 -	58*	67†	88†*	73	72
Sweden	45	41*	61	55*	69	72	70	93*	77	78
Wales¥	57†	39*	60†	45†*	55	56	72†	88†*	73	73

^¥≤80% children reported data on age, height, or weight to allow for estimation of body mass index and characterizing overweight status

^†Significant differences in physical activity and screen based sedentary behaviors between those with missing/non-missing BMI using chi-square test with continuity correction (P < 0.05) for countries where the response on age, height and/or weight variables was ≤ 80%.

n.a. = not available