Sport participation rate, lowest income quintile

In 2019, in the EU as a whole, nearly 55 % of people in the top income group practised sport and physical activities, as opposed to 37 % of people on the lowest incomes (see Figure 3).

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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_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPZ05

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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_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPZ05.

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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_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPZ05.

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@misc{eurostat2019sport8jpz05, 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_01M2NVAMSKSFP62DCDC68JPZ05}, 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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