The bar chart illustrates the count of minors of both genders who participated in six various sports in an English township in 2012. Overall, while football gained the most popularity among boys, it was swimming for girls. Additionally, hockey is the least preferred activity for both genders and boys outnumbered girls in most sports, except for swimming and badminton.
Looking at the provided database, football received the most participation among the boys with 60 of them playing, nearly three times higher than that of the girls, at roughly 21. The same trend was recorded for tennis and riding bicycles, where the number of boys exceeded that of girls by about 13 and 16, respectively. Notably, although hockey was the least common sport for both sexes, the boys still demonstrated greater interests in it than the girls, with 15 boys and around 9 girls playing it.
Concerning the remaining sports, both badminton and swimming were more prevalent among the girls, which stood contrast to other activities. Specifically, 30 boys and 40 girls engaged in the former, the latter was chosen by around 41 boys compared to 50 girls.