The pie charts provide data about the percentage of children under 18 who learned musical instruments in a specific region of the UK in 1996 and 2016. At the beginning of the period, 44% of young learners played musical instruments, and that leaved 56% guaranteed to go to the group who did not learn this subject. Until 2016, the percentage of learning a musical instrument climbed rapidly to 76%, three times more than that of not studying this instrument (24%).
When going into specific data of musical instrument choices, piano had as much as 30% of players under 18 in 1996, but the figure then decreased slightly by roughly 2% in 2016. In contrast, keyboard saw a subtantial increase from 21% to 30% during the same period.
Electric guitar, with only 13% of children playing this in 1996, grew by 3% in the next ten years. On the contrary, violin suffered a modest decline from 14% to 10% at the same time. Acoustic guitar, much like violin, also decreased steeply by 5% to only 3% in 2016.
Specially, the proportion of young learners playing more than one instrument achieved a growth to reach 13% after ten years. Other instruments accounted for 3% in 1996, and then dropped to only 2% by the end of the timeframe.
Overall, it is clear that while there was an upward trend in the percentage of children under 18 who learned to play keyboard and electric guitar, there were less young players who learned piano, violin, and acoustic guitar.