Band 7+: The table below shows the change in number of people engaged in various physical activities between the years 2001-2009 in Australia (in million people). Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

The table illustrates the variation in how many people participating in different activities, including running, aerobics, tennis, cycling, and swimming, in three separate years in Australia.

Overall, the proportion for running recorded the greatest change, and the inverse was true for cycling. Another significant feature of this table is that while the cycling figure decreased, that for running, aerobics, and tennis increased over the given period.

The running number varied the most with 156%, starting at 1.4 million people in 2001 and grew considerably to 2.2 million participants eight years later. The number attending aerobics and tennis experienced small variation due to gradual growths of 1% every four years in both categories, from 1.5 and 1 million attendants in 2001 to 1.7 and 1.2 million participants in 2009, respectively.

The swimming value fluctuated between 3.3 and 3.8 million people with a change of -10%. This is comparable to the cycling figure, which varied from 3.1 to 4.5 million attendants and recorded the smallest variation of -20%.