The chart displays the number of students applying to the universities of one European country from 2004 to 2008.
From an overall perspective, a downward trend was seen in the number of international applicants who were Chinese, while these figures for Japanese and American students had an upward trajectory.
In 2004, there were about 28000 applicants from China, after which this number quickly fell by more than 10000 in only two years. Subsequently, the figure stayed at 17500 for another year before slightly dropping to just above 15000 in 2008. During the exact same 5-year period, Russia’s figure remains relatively stable at only a moderate number of 2000 applicants.
Evidently, the Japanese and Ameircan’s trend were contrary to what was witnessed in the Chinese as their figures went up at the same time with the Chinese international applicant’s decline. In 2004, from about 6000 and 14000 respectively, Japan and USA’s figures steadily rose to 7500 and 17500 over the course of three years before taking a huge leap in the next year as they reached around 9500 and 22500 in 2007. In the following year (2008), the USA ended with roughly 28000 international applicants to the universities of one European Country while that of Canada was just above 10000.