The table provided compares the proportion of participants in distinct 7 sports in a specific European nation in 3 separate years: 1999,2004, and 2009.
Overall, the number of players in some sport categories witnessed an increase, except for football, volleyball and basketball, which show reverse patterns. However, soccer was always the highest during the whole period.
Regarding the escalated kinds of sport, swimming was the most popular one with around 32% in 1999, before remaining 34% in the two following years. Additionally, both tennis and golf attracted more sportsmen with the steady rise by around 5% each year, starting with 25% and 8%, respectively. Turning to yoga, the ratio of participants remained stable at 10% from 1999 to 2004, then finished at 13%, which made it the least played sport compared to others at the end of the period.
As for sport cohorts displaying declines in players, while football dropped from 57% to 52% in the first 5 years and continued to decrease to 48% in 2009, basketball recorded a steady downward trend of 1% lower each year. In terms of volleyball, although the quantity of participants grew from 17% to 20% at the beginning of the 20th century, it eventually fell to 18% in 2009.