The table below shows the change in number of people engaged in various physical activities between the years 2001-2009 in Australia (in million people). Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table chart depicts the data about individuals who were dedicated to five different sports in the

period

between 2001 and 2009 in Australia.

Overall

,

it is clear that

physical activities including running, aerobics and tennis experienced an upward trend

whereas

the remaining exhibited the opposite. There was an increase of people in three different activities in the

period

given. Running, which accounted for 1.4 in 2001 went up to 1.7 in 2005 before reaching 2.2 in 2009.

This

illustrates that

this

change was the biggest among the five.

Similarly

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the number of tennis players slightly increased from 1 in 2005 to 1.2 in 2009. Aerobics began at 1.5 in 2001 and grew up by 0.1 each year which means it

finally

reached a high of 1.7 in 2009 with 15% growth in the

period

.

Conversely

, the number of people who did cycling and swimming decreased.

For instance

, cycling which had the hugest loss (-20%) had 4.5 and plummeted by 1.4 in 2005. After that point,

this

recovered and gained 3.6 in 2009.

Moreover

, 3.7 million were engaged in swimming in 2001 and it showed a small increase in 2005.

However

,

this

suddenly dropped to 3.3 in 2009 meaning there was a -10% change in the

period

.