The graphic illustrates the percentage of people from United Kingdom with a high interest in an exact sport in 1995, 2000 and 2005. We can see the comparison for 6 sport activities: football, swimming, rugby, snooker, tennis, and golf.
Overall, the most noticeable interest among respondents was to football during the whole period of 10 years. In addition, the proportion rose gradually from 1995 to 2005 in about 4%. In contrast, the respondents’ engagement into tennis dropped sharply in 2000 and was staying on the same level until 2005, exactly 23%.
The least proportion of people chose swimming in the earliest survey, 23%. Nevertheless, after the dramatic increase to 29% in 2000 it decreased to 26% in 2005. Conversely, interest in rugby saw a drop in about 5% in 2000, but then it rapidly grew to its highest position, in region of 27%, in 2005. The same happened with snooker, which saw a sharp fall from 30% to 22% interested humans in 2000 but grew to 24% in 2005 afterwards. Golf is the most stable among all sports because it stays in region of 25-27% in ten years.
To sum up, the most popular for respondents sport always was football because more than 40% mentioned it. The least interesting was swimming in 1995 but in 2005 the proportion of respondents who chose it rose to 25%. In the end, the smallest minority liked tennis in 2005, about 23%, although it was on the second position after football in 1995.