Sport participation rate (at least once a week)
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44%
European Union · 2019
Sport participation rate in the European Union (at least once a week) stood at 44% in 2019 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Sports activities slightly increased between 2014 and 2019
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In 2019, 44 % of the EU population aged 15 or over reported that they have practised sport at least once a week (see Figure 1).
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- APA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. (2019). Sport participation - practicing sport and physical activity. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Sport_participation_-_practicing_sport_and_physical_activity. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPYZQ
- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Sport participation - practicing sport and physical activity." 2019, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Sport_participation_-_practicing_sport_and_physical_activity. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPYZQ.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Sport participation - practicing sport and physical activity." 2019. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Sport_participation_-_practicing_sport_and_physical_activity. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPYZQ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2019sport8jpyzq, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Sport participation - practicing sport and physical activity}, year = {2019}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPYZQ}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Sport\_participation\_-\_practicing\_sport\_and\_physical\_activity. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Sport participation - practicing sport and physical activity
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Sports activities slightly increased between 2014 and 2019
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 16 September 2026
- Last revision
- 16 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPYZQ