The graph provides information about how many participants, by gender, played six different kinds of sports in an English town in 2012.
Overall, it can be seen that more boys played sports than girls. Football was the most popular among boys, while swimming was the most favoured activity for girls. By contrast, both genders least preferred hockey.
Boys tended to participate in football, tennis, and cycling more than girls. According to the bar graph, football attracted the highest number of boys players, with 60 of them, whereas only about 21 girls played it. As for cycling, there was considerably lower engagement among girls than among boys, with 20 girls compared to around 36 boys. In tennis, the number of boys exceeded the number of girls, with 50 boys compared to about 38 girls. Moving to hockey, this activity had the lowest number of participants in both genders, with only around 15 boys and nearly 9 girls.
Badminton and swimming were the two most preferred sports among girls. Most girls were interested in swimming, with 50 of them, while only around 42 boys participated in this kind of sport. Furthermore, the number of girls who favored badminton was 40, which was higher than the figure for boys, at 30.