The two given bar charts illustrate the difference in the percentage of students who studied a foreign language between boys and girls, and show that the top three languages became popular among them from 1984 to 2007.
Overall, it is clear that while the number of girls in foreign language studies was much higher than that of boys throughout the given period, French consistently topped the list compared to the two remaining languages (German and Spanish).
Looking at the above chart, the percentage of girls who studied a foreign language started at nearly 50% in 1984, falling to 40% in 2007, whereas the figure for boys was reported at exactly 30% in 1984. The data for boys shared a similar trend with girls; it experienced a slight decline to roughly 26% in 2007.
Turning to the second chart, the number of students who studied French was the highest proportion throughout the period, at 50% in 1985, which was two and a half times as high as the number of pupils who learned German, at 20%. The Spanish language remained at its lowest point, with just over 3%. A comparable pattern was seen in 2007, in which the French language was still ahead of the German and Spanish languages, at around 25%. The second and third positions were the German and the Spanish, at approximately 15% and 10%, respectively.