The line graph provides comparative data on the proportion of players in basketball, tennis, badminton and rugby in a certain European nationt hroughout 2 decades commencing from 1985, at 5-year intervals
Overall, the figures for rugby and tennis saw opposite trends, while the former decreased, the latter saw a significant growth, reaching a peak in the final year
At the beginning of the period given, rugby was the most popular game, with figures accounting for 250 players. After a decade, this figure saw a drop of 50. By contrast, the number of tennis players started at 150, which was 100 lower than that of rugby and then this number increased significantly, competing with the figure of rugby in 1995. Moreover this figure continued its upward trend until reaching a peak of roughly 230. Followed by rugby lost its popularity as time went by, specifically, nose-diving to 50 at the end of the period
As for as the number of basketball and badminton players is concerned, these sectors were found to have had constant rate during the entire period, with thier respective figures comprising about 70 and 50 until 2005. There was also paltry decline in both categories in 1990; however those recovered its initial patterns, at which point they levelled off