There is no way 11% of the world population plays basketball. I tried to find the original source so I could check the methodology and couldn't - but i'd guess

There is no way 11% of the world population plays basketball. I tried to find the original source so I could check the methodology and couldn't - but i'd guess that a telephone survey of 35,000 people being extrapolated out to the entire world population leads to bad results The second part of that statement - that Basketball is the most popular sport in Australia - is verifiably false as the governments own data shows it at only the 7th most popular[0] [0] http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2017/04/28/football-australias-most-played-sport-11m-participants http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2017/04/28/football-a...