The bar chart compares the percentage of preference of six different types of sport in 1995, 2000 and 2005. The data was collected from respondents of a survey conducted in the UK.
Overall, football was the all-time favourite sport, meanwhile, the others experienced a relatively similar trend, which fluctuate throughout the given period. In addition, while football, swimming, and rugby witnessed an overall increase, the opposite was true for snooker, tennis, and golf.
Regarding the sports that gradually gain popularity, by being more than 40% of the respondents to vote as their favourite, football had maintained its predominant place for the whole surveyed decade, moderately increase to reach around 44% in 2005. Meanwhile, the trend for swimming was more unstable, in that it rose from around 23% in 1995 to nearly 30% 5 years later, before falling back to 25% in the final year. Adversely, the figure for rugby showed a slight drop to approximately 18% before bouncing back to 26% in 2005.
As for the remaining sports, starting as being the preference of nearly 30% of the surveyed respondents, snooker gradually lost its popularity in the next decade, as it only depicted an approximately 20% of the preference. Similarly, golf also witnessed a slight drop from 27% to 25% and 26% in 2000 and 2005 respectively. Finally, tennis was also one of the most favourite sport in 1995, taking up 30% of the preference; however, it significantly fall to exactly 20% in both 2000 and 2005.