The provided bar chart illustrates information pertaining to the quantity of international applicants to higher educational institutions of a unspecified nation in Europe.
Overall, it is evident that the number of foreign students from all 4 countries applying to these country’s universities saw an increase throughout the period with the exception of China. Additionally, in 2006, the figures for China and USA were the same.
Commencing with the two countries which a majority of students came from, the figures for Chinese students started at about 27000 applicants in 2004, before experiencing an gradual decrease to 18000 contenders in the next 2 years. Subsequently, this number remained stable until 2007 and went down marginally from 18000 to just over 15000 applicants at the end of the timeframe. In terms of USA, universities in this Europe country were increasingly popular to students came from USA that the static of USA applicants exhibited a continual growth during the entire period of 4 years starting in 2004 from 13000 to 27000 applicants.
Moving onto the remaining nations, the figure for Japan was more or less stable that it stablized in the first 3 years at approximately 7000 apllicants and then rose slightly in the last 2 years to 10000 applicants. Additonally, the number of Russia students applying for these universities was the most modest, thorought the period, this number fluctuated between 2700 and 2300 applicants.