The chart illustrates the number of athletes by gender who attended the Olympics from 1924 to 2012, while the graph portrays the total number of people taking part in the Olympics in this period.
Overall, the number of female and male participants engaging the Olympics increased, which led to a surge in the total.
From 1924 to 1984, the number of male players dominated over that of the female players. Starting at 3000 in 1924, while the female partcipants was negligible, The male participants witnessed a 2100 rise and reached 5100 in 1984. In contrast, the figure for females climped slightly from 100 to 1500. In 2012, although it rocketed, the number of female athletes was still outnumbered by their counterparts. The women athletes tripled from 1500 to 4500, whereas the male athletes continued to rise by approximately 1000.
From 1924 to 1984, the total number of participants rose progressively from 3000 to 6300. In 2012, the surge by 4500 in the overall number of athletes was accompanied by a significant increase in the number of female participants.
