The first bar chart illustrates the percentage of male and female pupils at the ages from 14 to 16 who choose to learn another language in one particular English-speaking nation from 1984 to 2007. Moreover, the second bar chart gives information about the three most popular languages in the same time period.
Overall, it is evident that there is a downward trend in both boy and girl students engaging in learning a new language beside English over the given period. In addition, a similarity pattern was witnessed in the statistics of popularity of French and German, excepted Spanish with an significant increase.
When it comes to the first chart, in 1984, the proportion of females who are interested in studying another language stood at nearly 50%, approximately 20% higher than that of males. However, until 2007, both two gender individuals have been less engaged in that activity leading to a moderate drop, with exactly 40% girls and around 25% boys respectively.
According to the second bar chart, French stood out as the most commonly chosen language among three options initially with 50% of all the students, followed by Germany with 20% and the least popular language Spanish with only 5%. By 2007, there was a dramatic decline in the number of both sexism pupils studying French, as only around a quarter, as well as Germany with nearly 13%. Whereas, the percentage of Spanish learners doubled, reaching 10% at the same time.