The most popular sports played in New Zealand in 2002 is illustrated in the chart. The chart also provides the gender distribution indicating the number of girls and boys playing those sports.
There is information about eight distinct sports and a column is dedicated to other sports. The most common sport is perceived to be netball which is played by girls and it accounts for 25% in contrast, boys seem not to be fond of this game taking up approximately 1%. After netball soccer has taken the second place of almost 25% of boys playing, it has proved to have outnumbered girls who account for 5%. Swimming takes the third place girls with a higher participation of over 20% followed by boys with less than 15%.
The only sports which girls and boys show almost similar proportions are basketball and tennis with a slight difference.
Overall, Netballs showed to be the most favorable outnumbered by girls followed by soccer which showed to be second in the list and most favorable by boys. Basketball and Tennis have shown a tight competition between girls and boys and differ slightly.
