The chart summarizes the percentage number of population watching live sports over years in one country , but with different types of sports.
Overall, swimming had the lowest participation, while football was the most popular sport, and cycling was ranked in the middle .
As well as, each sport show its changing over years, for example in 2005 swimming couldn’t reach 5%, but as we see for basketball in 2005 higher than it’s 2010. However, swimming engagement remained unchanged in 2010 and 2015, same as for golf remained stable in 2005 and 2010.
Whereas tennis engagement increased linearly, football participation same as tennis but much higher. Comparing at year 2015 football reach approximately 22%, while tennis is exactly 10%. Not only the difference in 2015 but also it’s in 2010, as the chart showing that most people over years prefer watching football. This trend is also seen in 2026 .
