The bar chart given delineates how many international students enrolled in tertiary education in one European country during the five-year period, starting from 2004. Overall, it can be readily seen that while the numbers of American and Japanese students were on the rise, the opposite movement was witnessed in that of Chinese students. In the meantime, there were hardly any fluctuations in the quantity of students coming from Russia within the time frame.
Ranking first as the leading contributor in 2004, China recorded around 27,000 students pursuing universities in the surveyed European country. Though this number soon dwindled to roughly 22,000 in the subsequent year, Chinese students were still the majority of total students registering for the European nation’s education program. Concurrently, the figure for students from the USA closely followed China’s as the second-highest. Specifically, an evident rise of 2,000 was experienced in the period 2004-2005 in the number of American students, from 13,000 to 15,000. The year 2006 saw an unprecedented change when China and the US both shared the same figure of approximately 18,000 before they continued their own patterns in the next 2 years. While the former’s data kept diving to hit just over 15,000, the latter’s kept moving upward to roughly 27,000 in 2008.
As the two countries with inferior figures, Japan and Russia did not register many noteworthy alterations. To be more specific, there was a gradual rise in the number of Japanese students in the European country’s universities during the time given, from about 7,000 in 2004 to 10,000 students 5 years later. Likewise, the figures for Russia did not experience any striking transformations, just ranging from around 2,000 to 3,000 to end up being the last on the list.