The pie charts present the most popular sports in French secondary school in 1990, 2000 and 2010.
Overall, swimming was the most popular sport in all three years, conversly tennis is the least played sports in all three years. The number of people playing basketball has increased over the years, in contrast, the number of football players has decreased.
From 1990 to 2000, the number of tennis players have stayed constant at 4%. Although the percentage rised from 4% to 7% in 2010, it remained the least popular sport. Swimming takes the largest proportion of the chart, being the most common sport played in every year. Initially, there was a significant rise from 39% to 48% between the years 1990 to 2000, then there was a slight drop to 41% in 2010. Although football’s popularity has an increase from 16% to 18% in 1990 to 2000, it had a sharp decrease from 18% to 8% in 2010, one percent from being the least favourite sport. There was a large drop of basketball players from 1990 to 2000 (16% to 7%), but experienced a rapid increase in popularity in 2010, rising from 7% to 25%. Other sports has a gradual decrease over the three years, dropping from 25% to 23%, then eventually reaching 19%.