The chart and graph below give information about participants who have entered the Olympics since it began.

The bar chart illustrates the total proportion of males and females who participated in the Olympic competitions from 1920 to 2012,

on the other hand

, the line graph depicts a growth of the rates in general. Looking from an

overall

perspective, it is readily apparent that both women's and men's numbers increased steadily until the final year, and male figures predominated throughout the period. In 1924, rates for men were leading the data exactly at 3000 and

this

statistic peaked almost at 6000 in 2012,

while

women's number stood at around 100 in the first year before a huge rise to 1500 in 1984.

Furthermore

,

although

it barely went up three times to about 3000 in 2012, it was still lower than the men's data. As for total participants in 1924,

this

began at 2400,

then

almost doubled and steadily grew until 1984 at over 6000 before increasing considerably to 12000 in the

last

year.