An International Comparison of Children and Youth’s Physical Activity Based on Human Development Index

From the perspective of Human Development Index(HDI),in the Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth on the basis of China,Canada,USA,England,Finland,South Africa and Kenya,this paper makes an international comparison of children and youth's physical activity.Comprehensive perspective and Report Card,sum up the relationship between HDI and children and youth's physical activity:1)HDI is an important indicator to measure the level of human comprehensive development,while HDI is increasing,overall physical activity for children and youth are falling;2)The change of life style which is brought by the rapid development of society is the main reason for the formation of the above rules;3)Community and the built environment have positive relationship with HDI in the influence of children and youth's physical activity;4)The differences between the national conditions and the system,the " school" in the perspective of HDI,there are differences in the promotion of children and youth's physical activity.Research suggests that the research perspective is helpful to people understand the relationship between children and youth's physical activity withhuman development based on the HDI.Multivariate evaluation index system of children and youth's physical activity make people understand students' physical fitness objectively and comprehensively.It is beneficial to promote the development of children and youth's sport and the improvement of students' physical fitness in China.