This chart illustrates the number of international candidates for the universities of one European nation.
Overall, challengers from China demonstrated their full domination over other applicants in the commencing of the period, also they set a record with crazy statistics. But in the final phase of the interval candidates from the USA repeated this record Meanwhile, challengers from Japan and Russia remained at a low level.
During the first 2 years, in comparison with applicants from the USA, Chinese candidates depict clear dominance. However, in the time for 3 years, it started to decline rapidly and In 2006, it faced to face with applicants from the USA. Before that, the number of challengers from the United States increased moderately. After 2006, there was a feeling like their graph flipped over because of the continued decrease in China challengers and an increase in USA candidates. In the final stage of the interval, the number of aspirants from the USA replicated the record of Chinese applicants. All in all the number of USA candidates increased from 12500 to 22.500, while & challengers from Chira decreased from 22500 to 15000.
The aspirants from Japan illustrated stability and grew from 7000 to 10000 in the given period. From year to year, the number of applicants continued to increase and finally reached 10 thousand. Meanwhile, Russia had the lowest number of aspirants In the first two years it decreased and remained stable until 2007. Alter that it had a minimal increase and hit 3000 candidates.