The table illustrates the change in the shares of people playing different types of sports in a European nation over ten-year period from 1999.
In general, football was the most prevalent sport in a Europen country, where the opposite was true for yoga throughout the period. Additionally, almost of sports witnessed an upward trend except football and basketball over the period.
Regarding to ball-related sports, football consistently hold the dominant position among sports in a European country over the examined period. The percentage of people playing football constituted over a half in 2010, after which experienced a decrease of around 5% every 5 years until 2009. Similarly, 26% of the total people was playing basketball in 1999, then this figure gradually increased by 1% in both 2004 and 2009. Conversely, the percentage of volleyball players in 1999 was 17%, then it reached a peak at 20% and dropped to 18% at the end of period.
Regarding the remain categories, the proportion of people who chose swimming rose from 32% in 1999 to 34% in 2004, and remained unchanged in 2009. Meanwhile , the proportion of people playing tennis and golf experienced a rise from 8% and 25% in 1999 to 17% and one-third after the 10 following years. Finally, the proportion of people chose yoga stablised at 10% from 1999 to 2004, then it rose by 3% in 2009.
