The bar chart shows the proportion of UK residents who feel interest in six different sports in the years 1995, 2000, and 2005.
Overall, it can be see that football remain the most popular sport throughout all three survey years, while golf record the lowest interest rate. In addition, interest in football and rugby generally increase over time, while tennis and snooker tend to decrease. And swimming fluctuate but end up at a higher level than at the beginning.
In 1995, football is the most popular sport, with 41% of interested. This number increased to 42% in 2000 before peaking at 44% in 2005. Tennis and snooker significantly attracted people too, in turn about 29% and 30%. However, both of types were decrease in the following years. Moreover, interest in tennis dropped to around 22% in 2000, and remained at that level until 2005. Similarly, snooker saw a little drop from 30% to 21% before recover to around 23% in the end of the period.
For swimming, the percentage of people interested increase significantly between 22% in 1995, and 29% in 2000, before decrease to around 27% in 2005. Besides, rugby shows a more fluctuation trend. In addition, interest in this sport decrease from 24% to 19% between 1995 and 2000, but then increase significantly to around 27% in 2005, put far away both tennis and billiards. Meanwhile, golf was always the least popular sport. The percentage of people interested remain relative stable, fluctuating from 17% in 1995 to 15% in 2000, before little increasing to around 16% at the end of the survey period.
