The supplied line graph presents the data on the average monthly spending on children’s physical activity, along with a comparison of youngsters’ numbers taking part in various sports in the UK during 7 years.
Overall, all tree sports (football, athletics and swimming) illustrate upward-trends, while football consistently remained the most popular sport, as well as the most expensive. Swimming was overtaken by athletics which became the second most popular and high-cost.
At the beginning of the period, athletics was done by only around 1 million of children, with the same amount of money spent, that made it the least popular and the cheapest leisure activity. Moreover, this tendency remained stable until 2010, when there was a sharp rise to 5 million by 2012. Thus, it surpassed swimming shortly before 2011. Afterwards, the second costly and widespread sport was tediously sliding to around 5 million.
Football has been holding leadership position for all 7 years. It only slightly dipped for about 100,000 children and dollars in 2010, but then recovered and increased gradually to 9 million. Out of 3 sports, only swimming did not decrease. At the outlet of the period, only 2 million kids did this activity, besides the similar average monthly expenditure. Since then, numbers were moderately rising by almost 2 million. Having said that, swimming leaved the second.
