The bar chart provides information on the number of applicants to European universities between four different countries over five consecutive years, starting from 2004 to 2008.
Overall, Japan followed an upward trend and grew significantly and took the top of the list. However, China, which started from the top, followed a downward trend. USA followed an upward trend increasing marginally and took third place during the entire period.
Turning to details, Japan and USA followed upward trend. There was a small difference between applicants from Japan and USA in 2004, but this gap widened down by the end of the year. In 2006, the number of applicants from Japan was at above 15000. This was significantly higher than that of applicants from USA, which was at above 5000. These figures are simular trends, with the former increasing sharply to around 22000 and the latter increasing slightly to around 9000. Applicants rate from USA increased to exactly 10000. However, Japan experienced a slight rise in 2008.
As for China and Russia, these figures followed downward yrend and stayed respectively. The former was the leading country in 2004 with roughly 27,000 applicants, but this count dropped steadily over the period, with the exception of stability during 2006-2007, to finish at 15,000. However, the figure for Russia experienced fluctuated slightly from 2005 to 2007 then was re-formed to the starting point..