The graph below shows the favorite sport of people from the US between 1985 and 2015

The given line graph illustrates the comparison of 5 favourite

sports

of US citizens for 30

Years

from 1985 to 2015.

Overall

, three kinds of

sports

( football, basketball and other

sports

) experienced an increase in the percentage of

population

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the population

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who played those

sports

over 30

years

.

In contrast

, the number of American

people

who are attracted to

baseball

and hockey decreased gradually during the given period. Looking into the details,

it is clear that

from 1985 football was the most popular sport with almost 38 % of society

then

increased slightly to almost 40 % of citizens before declining slightly to 35 % in 2000. After 5

years

the

figure

rose to roughly 42 % and

then

remained steady until 2015. Starting from first and third position other

sports

and basketball had 5 % and 15 %

people

who interested with

this

sports

. In around 2004 other

sports

overtook hockey to become fourth place and

then

continued to jump up to almost 25 % in 2015

while

basketball had a slight decrease

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from 1985 to 1990 and

then

fluctuated from 15 % population in 1995 to almost 20 % in 2005.

finally

,

This

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overtook

baseball

in around 2010 at approximately 22 % and occupied second place in 2015 with almost 25 %

people

.

In contrast

, starting from the second position population, the passion of UK citizens for

baseball

tended to decrease from 35 % in 1985 to just under 20 % making it occupy the third position.

Likewise

, in

baseball

, in 1985 10 % of American

people

joined hockey.

This

figure

remained constant after 10

years

before decreasing slightly to just under 5 % during the end of the period.