The bar chart illustrates the amount of youth playing various main sports in specific area, in two separate years 1997 and 2017.
Overall, it is obvious that Tennis has the highest number of players among the other sports in both years, whereas, Basketball has the lowest number of participants in 1997, however, cricket reached the minimum amount of players in 2017.
Looking through the details, Tennis players reached 50 and 65 thousand in 1997 and 2017 respectively, while Basketball was about 8 thousand in 1997 and rose to 22 in 2017. The opposite was true for Cricket as it attracted 25 thousand in 1997, but it declined to 6 thousand only in 2017. There was a slight variance between the numbers of participants in golf, it recorded 32 thousand in 1997 and 33 nearly in 2017. Regarding swimming, there was no change between the two numbers in both years, it attracted 35 thousand.
Finally for Football and Rugby, although they were equal in the figure, there was an insignificant difference between the two sports. In 1997 Football was 31 thousand, while Rugby had more than 33 thousand nearly, and in 2017, Rugby reached 49, while football was 47 thousand only.
