What is the most popular sport in the world? In this video the analysis of the most popular sports in the world from 1930 to 2020. Obviously the damage is an estimate of the total. Most Popular Sports in the World – (1930/2020). The most popular sportsThroughout the world, dozens, hundreds of different sports are practiced. From tennis to soccer. From Cricket to American footbaal. From artistic gymnastics to high jump. But what are the most popular sports in the world? And how has the popularity of these sports evolved? Having seen the most popular sports in the world (although the data is partial and limited) we now try to answer another question. What are the most popular sports per country? In this case, the graph below will help us with this answer. As can be seen on the map, the most popular sport in many countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America is football (soccer). In the United States, the most popular sport is American football and in Canada, ice hockey. Cricket is played in India and neighbouring countries as well as Australia. Source and other linksThe data were made by comparing different databases. Obviously the data do not present the exact number of players in the world, but they are an “estimate”. Source: RealBuzz; sportshow; Worldatlas. For other articles about the sports world: http://statisticsanddata.org/category/sport Support “Statistics and Data” We all have our favorite sports, but which sports are the most popular around the world? The problem is coming up with a clear defining meaning for popular - by popular do we mean most watched, the most played, or the sport with the most passionate fans! Soccer is clearly the most popular sport in terms of fans. The FIFA World Cup held every four years has a huge TV audience - over 30 billion people watched the 2006 World Cup in Germany (I know that's more than the world's population, this figure is an 'accumulated' audience, meaning if people watched more than one game, which most people did, they were counted each time). The list below was found online and no source for the fan numbers has been found, though I generally agree with the sports on the list. Field hockey is widely played, though I'm not sure it should be ranked so high. Not everyone agrees with the list, you can see quite a heated discussion in the comments below. On the same website, there are top sports lists for each country, based on the estimated number of fans using a very interesting method to measure popularity. The lists are based on the results of website visitor traffic analysis (using the Alexa traffic rank) of over 300 sports websites, which reflect which sports the internet users in the particular country are most interested in. Regional popularity gives an insight into where the fan base is located around the world. See also a list based on a similar principle - website traffic to sports pages on Wikipedia and Google Search Sports Terms. Commenting is not active on this page, though some may be added. You can read some of the interesting previous comments below.
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