Number of EU countries with increased sport participation rate
RecordSTO-6FX22YKHCW-PQ7BSH28F0-K8Y2EE
European Union · 2014–2019
Number of EU countries with increased sport participation rate was 16 in 2014–2019 (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
Among the 24 EU countries with data available for both surveys, this increase was confirmed in 16 countries, most notably in Hungary and Estonia with almost 10 percentage points (pps).
Checked: the figure 16is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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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_6FX22YKHCWPQ7BSH28F0K8Y2EE
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- 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_6FX22YKHCWPQ7BSH28F0K8Y2EE.
- 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_6FX22YKHCWPQ7BSH28F0K8Y2EE.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2019numberk8y2ee, 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_6FX22YKHCWPQ7BSH28F0K8Y2EE}, 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
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- editorial:judge-fix-v1:2026-09-27
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_6FX22YKHCWPQ7BSH28F0K8Y2EE