The 3 charts display the popularity of different types of sports played by secondary school students in France over 20 years.
Overall, swimming had the largest percentage. Basketball, football and ‘other’ saw fluctuations over the year. Tennis remained the same for the first 10 years and then later slightly increased.
Swimming made up most of the percentage during the 20-year period, increasing from 39% in 1990 to 48% in 2000, before going down by 7% in 2010. Football saw a slight increase in popularity of about 2% in the first 10 years and then later decreased by 10% over the next 10 years. Moreover, Basketball saw a decline in popularity from 16% in 1990 to just 7% in 2000, before increasing to 25% in 2010.
‘Other’ significantly followed a downward trend during the 20- year period from 25% to 19%. However, Tennis remained at 4% from 1990 to 2000, before increasing to 7% in 2010
