The bar chart illustrates how many people from four different nations, namely China, Japan, the USA and Russia applied to universities in a European country in a 4- year period, starting from 2004.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that there were upward trends in the number of applicants from all countries, except for China. Another noticeable point is that initially, China had the highest number of applicants, however, at the end of the period, the figure for the USA was higher than other countries.
Turning to the details, as regards Japan, starting from 7000 people, and then the number of people who applied to the universities of one European nation increased gradually to 10000 people in 2008. Similarly, there was a significant rose from 13,000 applicants to approximately 27,000 applicants in the figure for the USA.
If we look at the number of applicants from China, the trend went in the opposite direction. This figure started at 27,000 applicants in 2007, after which it experienced a dramatic decline to 18,000 applicants in 2006 and remained at this level until 2007, before decreasing and ending the period at about 15,000 applicants. The number of Russian people applied to these universities fluctuated around 2,000 and 3,000 people throughout the period.