The given bar chart demonstrates the number of students in 4 different nations (China, Japan, USA, and Russia) applying in European universities within four years from 2004 to 2008.
Overall, China and America got a contrast trend as well as the highest number of applicants while Japan and Russia are both share the fewer applicants than the other two countries.
On the one hand, China started the period with the highest number which was more than 25000 of students applying in European universities. Then, the number of students decreased constantly to less then 20000 in the next two years and began to maintain until 2007, it went down considerably to more than 15000. However, it still got the second highest number of applicants at the end. Besides, in 2004, students who applied to the universities of one European country is more than 10000 and increased steadily within 4 years and reached the peak with more than 25000 at the end of the period.
On the other hand, Japan got only less than 5000 of applicants in the first year of the 4-year period. Nevertheless, the number of Japanese students changed slightly in upward trend and got about 10000 students in 2008. Following that, Russia students applying to the universities of one country in Europe got the lowest number with less than 5000 students at first and had a small fluctuated throughout the next four years and ended the period with 40000 applicants.