The provided table illustrates the results of surveys of people in the UK, carried out in three various decades. It shows the percentage of the UK residents interested in certain sports.
Overall, the proportion of people interested in Football sport stood out as the most prominent over the period, despite decreasing slightly. Followed distantly by Golf, and it mirrored the trend that of Football. However, Judo cited as the least popular, with the most pronounced decrease over the period.
Starting with football category, remained comfortably the leading sport over the period, despite experiencing insignificant decline, from 59% to 56%. Additionally, golf ranked second high-interested sport, constituting 28% in 1990, before decreasing slightly to 26%. Ultimately, the proportion of people interested in judo category showed much lower rate in preferring, stood at 9% in the initial year and representing marked decline than others, at 4% in 2010.
Those decreases were in stark contrast to the figures for the remaining sport activities. The percentage of individuals interested in rugby exhibited a two-fold rise to 24% from 12% between 1990 and 2010. Notably, Cricket witnessed negligible increase ranging from 12% to 14% over the three decades. Swimming, however, fluctuating slightly, with 15%, growing off three percentage points by 2000, then it experienced a marginal dip to 16% in 2010.