The bar chart gives information about the proportion of school children who learned to play four kinds of musical instruments – the guitar, piano, drum, and violin during 1 decade from 2005 to 2015.
Overall, there was a decrease in the percentage of students who played violin, while the figure for remaining instruments saw an increase. In addition, the proportion of school children playing guitar and piano was consistently the highest. In contrast, the rate of drum and violin players was much lower, showing very few changes throughout the period.
Looking first at instruments that recorded higher percentages. The proportion of students playing guitar stood at about 11% in 2005, becoming the highest figure. After which it rose significantly to 20% in 2010, before ending the period at around 27% in 2015, remaining the most common instrument. Similar changes could be seen in the figure for piano, it started at 10% in 2005, then it climbed sharply, reaching 25% in the final year of 2015, this was the second most popular instrument, just behind the guitar.
In terms of the instruments that had less players. The percentage of school children who played the drums began at only about 6% in 2005, followed by a slow decline and finally, it rose to nearly 8% in 2015, recording as the least common instrument. Similarly, the initial figure for the violin was around 8% in 2005, then it fell gradually and became the only instrument that went down, before witnessing the data of 7% at the end of the period.