The bar chart provides information about the number of students from four different countries including China, Japan, USA and Russia who applied to many European universities in a five year period from 2004 to 2008.
Overall, there was a downward trend in the application to many European universities of Chinese students while the opposite was true in terms of students coming from the USA and Japan. It is also evident that the figure for Russian remained stable over a five-year period.
Looking at the details, the number of applicants in EU university in China was about nearly 30 thousand which was the highest among four categories in the first year. In the following four years, the figure for China saw a significant decline to just over 15 thousand in 2008. By contrast, the Russian application to many European universities had no shift with about 2,5 thousand between 2004 and 2008.
On the other hand, the figure for Japan was about 7 thousand, being comparable with the USA, at approximately 14 thousand in 2004. Moreover, the data revealed a similar upward trend in the number of applicants to many European universities. From 2005, the application of the Japanese had a slight growth to roughly 10 thousand while the categories for the USA surged significantly to nearly 30 thousand, which replaced the Chinese applications in 2004 and dominated the number of applicants in 2008.