The bar chart illustrates the changes in the foreign applications to European higher education from 4 nations between 2004 and 2008.
Overall, while the registration from Chinese students showed a signficant decline, firgures for Amerian and Japanese ones increased gradually over 5-year span. Otherwise, the number of Russian applications remained with a minor fluctuation.
In 2004, the most student came from China with the number of 27000. However, this number decreased to over 15000 in 2008 and resulted China to reach top 2. On the other hand, the application from Russia oscillated slightly around 3000 and 4000 students during the period.
At the beginning of the time frame, about 13000 American learners applied to European uiversities, was equivalent to half of Chinese one. After 4 years, this number doubled and reached to 27000 students. Therefore, the USA is the country which had the most students pursuing their higher education in European in 2008. In addition, the firgure of Japanese learners had the same uptrend with a rise from 7000 to 10000 students each year over the time given.