The illustrated table demonstrates the numbers of students at a Malaysian secondary school during the period of 2 school years. While the given pie charts give an information about the uotcomes of interviews asking students about their favourite sports.
Overall, it is apparent that in the second school year period, the number of students significantly more than it used to be. As for the most popular sports among the students, majority chose the tennis before, but in the second given school year, children preferred football more than any sport else.
As for the period from 2004 to 2005, the total number of secondary school students accounted for 73,000. In this years, tennis was chosen by 40% of 73,000 people, while the smallest proportion had rugby, making up for only 5%. In addition, the second most popular kind of sport was football, equavalent to 30%.
Ten years later, the number of students at a Malaysian secondary school grew up from 73,000 to 91,000. After a decade, preference of students notably transformed, like the favourite sport of the preponderance changed to football, constituting 40%, making up the same percentage as tennis was in 2004-2005. As the football, the amount of students that chose basketball is uplifted, from 15% to 35%, demonstrating an upwarding trend. Conversely, the proportion of tennis lovers decreased from 40% to 15%, showing the serious reduction. Moreover, in 2014, the number of students presented swimming as their favourite sport was plunged from 10% to 5%, representing minimal decline. The only steady trend is rugby, because the percentage at 5% remained the same during the period of ten years.