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Badminton participation overview
Badminton is the 7th most popular sport for female participation - around 200,500 women play badminton at least once a week.
However, the number of female participants has been declining since 2007-8, and the sport loses over half of its female participants between the ages of 16 and 18.
The greatest disparity between men and women in badminton occurs at ‘middle youth’ where 30-34 year old men are almost three times more likely to play the sport than women of the same age.
