US TABLE TENNIS PARTICIPATION RISES 16%

SGMA (Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association) just released new sports/fitness participation data for 2006.

http://www.sgma.com/associations/5119/files/topline07.pdf

Frequent Participants (Play 25+ times/yr) 3,049,000
Regular Participants (13-24 times/yr) 1,545,000
Casual Participants (1-12 times/yr) 10,513,000
Total Participants 15,107,000

The 2006 figures show an increase of 16% over 2005 figures (13,023,000) and an 18.7% increase over 2000 figures (12,726,000.

These increases are among the highest percentage increases of all sports/fitness activities surveyed. 
No other sports came close to this level of percentage increase.