The given table demonstrates the shifts in the proportion of European participating in seven different sports in a ten-year period, starting in 1999.
Overall, there were significant fluctuations in the percentages of people playing sports during the given time period. Meanwhile, the figures of football were overweight the others.
Looking at the first four sports, tennis and golf shared a similar trend of rising gradually, proceeded from 25% to 33% and 8% to 17% in given order. Whereas, despite being the most popular sport, football’s proportion experienced a decline by 9% after ten years. Meanwhile, the number of people taking part in swimming maintained relatively stable.
For the remaining, the figures of volleyball generally increased while it tapered off by the year 2004 with one fifth of the total. The rate of people playing basketball slightly decreased by 2% during the period while these number of yoga remained stable in the first five years before climbed to 13% by 2009.
