The bar graph illustrates the statistics for international students enrolling in the universities of four particular nations over the interval of 4 years since 2004.
From an overall perspective, it is evident that the number of abroad individuals applying to universities in USA, and Japan underwent upward trends while the opposite was true in China over the surveyed span.
To be more precise, the oversea applicants to the universities in China was by far the most significant and experienced a downward pattern. Specifically, it reached its peak at 27.000 in 2004 and diminished sharply to 18.000, remaining the period of 2-year from 2006 to 2007 followed by diving moderately to roughly 15.000 in 2008. In contrast, this trend can be observed in USA, there was swift ascend from approximately 13.000 to 18.000 and surged gradually to 26.000 over the 4-year timeframe.
It is noteworthy that in Russia, the figure for remaining a relatively stable levels between 2.000 to 3.000 throughout 4 years. In addition, there was noticeable growth in Japan from 7.000 to 9.000 within 4 years from 2004.