The illustration depicts data about the number of overseas applicants to the universities of a European country from 2004 to 2008, the participants are from four countries (China, Japan, the USA, and Russia).
Overall, the trend shows a tapered decline in Chinese applicants. Meanwhile, it demonstrates a gradual increase in the number of American applicants. These two countries represent the largest two shares among the other countries. Japanese student numbers came third with almost a stable ratio throughout the period, followed by Russian students which had fluctuating rates.
In 2004, Chinese applicants represented the highest number of applicants among the other overseas applicants with around 28000 participants, followed by the American applicants with around 13000 applicants, while only 7000 Japanese students applied to the universities in this European country, and the lowest number of students applied were from Russia with just under 25000 participants.
In 2005, The rank of the countries’ share remained the same, however, the Chinese share demonstrated a gradual decline to record approximately 22000 applicants, while the USA share increased to 15000 students sharply. The Japanese ratio remained without any change, while the Russian share decreased to around 1000 students.
In 2006, China and the USA equalized in their shares recording around 17000 applicants each, At the same time, Japanese and Russian ratios remained stable. in 2007, The Chinese applicant rates leveled off, while the American applicants number climbed to nearly 2200 applicants, Russia and Japan ratios, again, remained unchanged. Finally, in 2008, the Chinese share downgraded to 15000 students, while the USA share Massively rocketed to reach its highest number of applicants of around 28000 students. Japanese students number also slightly increased to 1000 students, additionally, the number of Russian applicants rose back to almost 2500 applicants.