The pie charts illustrate the percentage of the most popular sports among French secondary schools in 1990, 2000, and 2010.
Overall, swimming remained as the most popular sport, while tennis was consistently the least popular among the others. Meanwhile, the ranking in popularity of basketball, football, and other sports were of different orders during the time period.
Swimming was the most popular sport among French secondary schools since 1990. Its most popular period was at 48% in 2000. Tennis was the least popular sport throughout the period, although it increased slightly to 7% by 2010. Despite this, it remained the least popular sport between the five categories.
Football and basketball were equally popular in 1990, each at 16%. However, in 2000, basketball became significantly less popular compared to football by 11%. This dramatically changed as the popularity of basketball rose to 25% in 2010 from only 7% in 2000, making it the second most popular sport next to swimming. Unspecified sports under “others” were the second most popular in 1990 and 2000, with basketball surpassing its popularity in 2010.
