The bar chart illustrates, the applications recieved from different countries namely, China, Japan, USA and Russia to the universities of one European country between 2004 to 2008.
Overall, the number of applicants from the USA and China was surpassing . The applications from China decreased steadily during culminating years whereas the proportion of USA and Japan edged up marginally. Russia remained same from thr commencing year till culminating year with slight fluatuations.
At the outset, there was only almost 15,000 applicants from USA in 2004 later it surged up enormously to above 15,000 within 2 year, then the graph expanded steadily to almost 30,000 in 2008. The number of international applications from Japan was just above 5,000 from 2004 to 2005 then it mildly rebounded to nearly 10,000 in 2007 ,finally inclined with 10,000 applicants in 2008.
On the other hand, the number of international students taking admission in the universities of European countries was huge from China which was notable to approximately to 30,000 in 2004,then it experienced a steady fall down to below25,000 in a year ,later it eased back to just above15,000 from2006 to 2007 ,finaly dropped to15,000 in 2008. Applicants from Russia was relatively low throughout the period it was only3000 in commencing year later it dwindled to about 1000 over a course of 3 years,finally it experienced a slight incline to same 3000 in 2008.