The given column graphs compare the age of students 14-16 the proportion of foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three popular foreign languages. Overall, period of 23 years, can be seen the percentage of students studying foreign language significantly decreased, even the percentage of top three popular languages most dropped.
In 1984 the percentage of girls studying foreign language were almost 48%, but in 2007 that is indicator had dropped to . Over the these years, the percentage of among the boys learning foreign language had exactly 40%. In 2007 that indicator which had decreased to 25%, this percentage were lower rather than girls indicators.
In 1984 French was one of the best popular languages among the studied by students and that year indicators of French language had 50%. In spite of, after 23 years that the percentage which had dropped to 25%. The second popular was German and this between 1984 and 2007 the percentage decreased from 20% to 15%. However, Spanish had increased from 0,5% to 10%.