The provided line chart depicts information regarding how many university students graduated in Canada by gender over a fifteen-year period between 1992 and 2007.
Overall, what stands out from the given graph is that while there is a negative trend, all genders experienced a positive trajectory across the entire timeframe. Apart from the general trends, females consistently outperformed throughout the timeline.
Looking at the first six years, the number of female university graduates stood at just under 100,000, while that of males initiated at roughly 70,000 in 1992. By 1995, that of females had exhibited a marginal rise to approximately 104,000 and that of males had a moderate increase of about 10%, growing to 77,000. After inclining for three years, both genders saw a downturn in 1998.
From 1999 onwards, despite slumping a year ago, the figure for females and males managed to rebound, climbing slightly in 2002 to 110,000 and nearly 73,000, respectively. Furthermore, the growth of both genders accelerated rapidly between 2003 and 2007. The statistics for female Canadian degree graduates surged to almost 150,000, on the other hand, opposite gender went substantially up by around 30% to roughly 95,000. Both figures reached a peak at the end of the period.