By almost any metric, the most popular sport in the world is soccer or football.
Across the world, over 4 billion people follow it – which makes up just over half the entire world’s population.
In many ways, this is because of the ease of playing. As long as you have a ball and a field, you can play soccer. In 2014, over 3.9 billion people (again over half the population across the globe) watched at least some of the World Cup coverage.
The second most popular sport around the world is basketball – but it has far fewer followers at just 1 billion. Still, in many countries such as the United States, Spain, China, France, and Argentina have professional leagues that generate billions and billions of dollars in revenue each year.
It is also the fasting growing sport in the world – meaning that more and more people are learning to play now.
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