The bar graph illustrates the findings of a survey conducted among UK citizens about the ratio of people who were inclined to several sport activities in three different years such as 2005, 2000 and 1995.
Overall, it can be seen that the most interested sport activity was football in all the three years. Whereas golf accounted the least preference among people in the 10 year period.
To begin with, soccer gathered the largest share of enthusiasts with 42% in 1995. However, the rate at which the preference grew over time was slow by 1% and 2% in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Swimming and Snooker were the second most interested activities after football. Snooker peaked in the initial year by 30%, but further experienced a downfall in the next two years. Whereas swimming saw gradual rise from 22% in the first year to 29% in 2000, but eventually fell in the next year.
Subsequently, the game of rugby generated approximately 25% interests in 1995 which later rose to 27% in the final year. In addition to that, tennis recorded an average 30% interest rate and it went down in the next two years, a fall compounded by almost 8%. Golf remained as the lowest preferred activity in all the surveyed years in a range between 15-20%.