The table gives illustrates the alternations in levels of participants in multiple sport between 2010 and 2014 in the USA for the people from age of 18 to 34.
Overall, the number of participants who changed their levels in Yoga, hiking, and running experienced upward trends over the given period, while the reverse was true for Baseball, basketball, Softball, and swimming, with substantial declines throughout the timeframe. It is also noteworthy that, athletics in Weightlifting remained unchanged over the given timeframe.
Regarding the increased sports, the percentage of athletes in hiking and running stood at as dominant sector, with 12 million and 15 million of participation respectively, a figure that then for former trends, it saw a significant growth to around 14 million, while the latter sport experienced a noticeable rise to approximately 18 million of participation in 2014. As for Yoga, the level of athletic who changed their career to Yoga accounted for 9 million of participants before increasing to 12 million in 2014.
Tuning to the declined trajectories, the share of athletes in Basketball was relatively higher than that of Baseball with 9 million of athletes, compared to 3,8 million in 2010. The rate of participants in Weightlifting and Swimming showed almost a similar pattern at 13,5 million after which it decreased gradually to 13,3 million and 10,5 million of participants respectively. There was a dramatic decline in basketball to 7.8 million of athletes, while the figure for baseball made up 2.2 million in 2014. By 2010, the rate of athletes who changed their levels in Softball accounted for 4 million of participants before reducing to nearly 2,5 million of athletes in 2014.