What percent of the world plays soccer?

Answer 1

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with more then 250 million registered players. However, this number does not represent the amount of people who enjoy coaching, watching and playing the sport. There are also many people who play street soccer and other unofficial forms of the sport. It isn't possible to tell exactly how many people play soccer but a rough estimate would be that approximately 3.5 billion peopleactively enjoy soccer world wide. Out of a population of 7 billion, that's 50%.

Answer 2

In the last 30 years, nearly 3 million children between the ages of 5-19 are now playing in youth soccer leagues throughout the United States.