The bar chart illustrates the number of students in 4 regions around the world from 2004 to 2008
Overall, the number of Japanese, USA and Russian students increased, while China witnessed an opposite trend. In addition, the statistics for Chinese applicants in 2004 and USA applicants in 2008 were the highest, compared to the lowest by Russia in 2005.
With regards to American students, the figure for Americans in 2004 was around 14000 students, and then it grew gradually to around 28000 international applicants in 2008. Roughly 6000 Japanese students applied to European universities in 2004, and this statistics subsequently increased to around 10500 students in 2008. Russian witnessed an insignificant decrease in applicants from around 2500 students in 2004 to around 2000 students in 2005. In the next 2 years 2006 and 2007, these statistics remained unchanged, after which it experienced a marginal grew to around 2600 students in 2008.
Turning to the number of Chinese students, students from China started at around 28000 in 2004, which was equivalent with the Americans in 2008, then this figure dropped significantly to roughly 18000 students. The number of applicants from China remained stable for one year until slightly fell to around 15000 students.
