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By the Numbers

Toward 10 Million Kids Outdoors
Researchers, parents and educators have noticed an alarming trend: kids are spending more time indoors - often with technology in hand - and less time outside. Kids today get more than seven hours of screen time and spend less than 30 minutes
outdoors on average per day, even as evidence continues to mount supporting the benefits of active outdoor time on children's
mental and physical health. Spending time in nature early in life also helps to engender environmentally friendly behaviors
later in life. In 2012, NRPA joined the National Wildlife Federation in a commitment to get 10 million kids outdoors for
active learning and play by 2015. As we reflect here on the progress of the 10 Million Kids Outdoors initiative to date, we encourage you to join the effort. Learn more and register your agency to participate at www.nrpa.org/10MillionKidsOutdoors.

650:

7.38:

Number of park and recreation agencies and
organizations that have committed to the 10 Million Kids
Outdoors initiative to date.

Average hours per day of children's media
consumption, including television, video games, music,
computers and print media.

5.5 million: Number of kids to date

82: Percentage of American parents who think

who have been engaged by the 10 Million Kids Outdoors
campaign to spend time participating in outdoor nature-based programs.

12 million: Number of hours that partic-

ipating children spent in nature during 2013, as reported
by 10 Million Kids Outdoors participants.

49: Number of states with at least one park and

spending time in nature is very important for their children's development.

11:
66: Percentage of children who report having had a

Percentage of American children who visit a
local park or natural area every day.
meaningful experience in nature.

recreation agency committed to 10 Million
Kids Outdoors.

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Sources: Kaiser Family Foundation's Generation M2: Media in
the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds (www.kff.org/entmedia/entme
dia030905pkg.cfm), The Nature Conservancy/Nature Rocks
Survey (www.naturerocks.org/parents-worldwide-agreeour-kids-need-more-nature.xml), The Nature Conservancy's
Connecting America's Youth to Nature Report (www.nature.
org/newsfeatures/kids-in-nature/kids-in-nature-poll.xml).



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