The bar chart illustrates how many international students apply to the universities of one European country or four countries from 2004 to 2008
It is clear that the main trend of USA and Japan students was an upward trend and the opposite was true in the figure for China. Besides, the number of international applicants to the college of one European country of Russia alway kept the bottom.
In 2004, the data for China students was highest at around 27000, nearly half that of the USA. In addition, about 7000 and 3000 were the number of Japanese and Russian applying to the college in European countries, respectively. In 2 years, there were some changes in all the figures. The data for China decreased dramatically to about 18000, otherwise the figure for the USA climbed moderately to the same level. Fluctuations around 1000 to 2000 were the main trend in Japan and Russia.
In 2008, the number of The USA students applying to the universities of one European country reached the peak at about 27000. While the opposite can be seen in the figure of China at above 15000, the lowest figure they got in the whole period. Besides, The data for Japan increased slightly to 10000 in the last year and Russia still kept the bottom at 4000.
