The graphs show which sports were the favourite amongst secondary school students in France for 1990, 2000, and 2010.
Overall, swimming was the preferred sport in each year, while basketball replaced ‘other’ as the second most well-liked category in the final year. Tennis was the least favourite of the sports in each of the given years.
Swimming is shown as the favoured sport in each year with 39%, 48%, and 41% for 1990, 2000, and 2010, respectively. After swimming, the preferred category was ‘other’, with 25% in 1990 and 23% in 2000, but this figure fell to 19% in 2010. For basketball, a large surge in popularity, from 16% and 7% in the first two years to 25% in the final year, meant that this sport had replaced ‘other’ as the second most favourite category in French secondary schools.
Football joined basketball as the second least popular sport in 1990 at 16%. It experienced a slight increase in popularity to 18% in 2000, but this was followed by a substantial decrease to 8% in 2010. Tennis was the least preferred sport in every year at 4% in both 1990 and 2000, while a small growth in 2010 brought the figure to 7%.