Youth participants in boardsailing and windsurfing in the U.S. from 2006 to 2020

In 2020, 587 thousand people between the ages of 6 and 17 in the U.S. participated in some form of boardsailing or windsurfing activity. The practice didn't exhibited any clear trends in the depicted period, although it observed a net growth since the 2006 figure of 225 thousand.

Water sports in the U.S.

The popularity of water sports in the United States remained fairly constant between 2013 and 2020. In those years, around 13.5 percent of respondents stated to practice sports of that kind. When it came to the participation discriminated by age group, Millennials (born in 1980-1999) were the generation with the highest proportion of participants at 17.1 percent, followed by Gen Z (2000 and onwards) with 16.3 percent.

The water sports equipment market

In 2020, the average annual expenditure on water sports equipment in U.S. households was 11.43 U.S. dollars. This was the highest spending recorded since 2007. Meanwhile, the value of imports and exports of sporting articles in the North American country was more or less stable in between 2015 and 2020, with exports having seen a slightly declining trend and imports an oscillating one.