The statistic illustrates how many people from four different developed nations who applied to European colleges in order to study abroad over the course of 4 years, starting from 2004.
As can be seen from the chart, there was a discernible downward trend in the figure for China, while the remaining countries witnessed the opposite trend, except for Russia, which remained unchanged. Among these nations, China was the country that had the highest percentage of studying oversea people during the first half period; however, from 2006 onwards, this first position belonged to America.
In 2004, by far the country which had the highest percentage of students applying to universities in European nations was China, as it accounted for around 30000 individuals, which was double than that of the United States and four times as many as the figure for Japan. In Russia, studying abroad in European colleges was not the common option, with the number of students choosing this suggestion stood at 2500 people.
Subsequently, the USA observed the significant increase in the proportion of students who study oversea in European nations by 15000 units, surpassing China to have the highest statistic at the end of the period. The similar pattern can be seen in Japan where the figure for individuals studying abroad went up moderately from 5000 to 10000. By contrast, the year of 2010 recorded the noticeable fall from around 30000 students to 15000 ones. Meanwhile, the percentage of Russian people applying to European universities remained relatively stable, at 1000 units.