translated from Spanish: The reasons why 58% of Mexicans is not exercised

less than half of Mexicans over the age of 18 years (41.7%) doing sport or physical exercise in their free time, according to a survey of sports practice drawn up by the National Institute of statistics and geography (Inegi).
The survey, erected by Inegi in November 2018, says that men (48.4%) are more active physically than women (35.6%).
People aged 18 to 24 are the most practiced sport (39.6%), followed by the aged 35 to 44 (39.0%), and by the aged 25 to 34 (37.4%).
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Facilities or public, with 64% places, occupy the place of choice for physical practice while 33% goes to facilities or private places.
About the hours you prefer exercise, 39% responded that he prefers to practice sport in the morning, 29.3% in the afternoon and 19.5% overnight, while 13.4% do not have a specific schedule.
According to INEGI, a higher level of schooling are recorded higher percentages of population which is physically exercised: only 26% of the population without basic education devotes time to practice sport.
The population with completed basic education or some degree of secondary education, physically active, maintains levels slightly higher than 40%, while those with higher education register values from the 54.8%.
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The population that has made exercise ever, and currently does not practice it, reports that the main reasons for the abandonment of these activities are lack of time (45.8%), tiredness for the work (24.8%) and health issues (18.2%).
The main reasons of the population physically inactive and who has never practiced sport activities are lack of time (40.5%), tiredness for the work, (19.3%), laziness (18.4%) and health issues (16.1%).
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Since that year, attributable to overweight and obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, have become the leading cause of death in Mexico registering the 39.2% of mortality in the country.
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Original source in Spanish