The illustrations depict data about the number of research university students in Australia from 2001 to 2010, comparing the rates of national and international students, in addition to males to females ratio.
Overall, the trend exhibits a slight increase in local research students numbers, whilst a rapid increase in the number of international research students, Additionally, it shows a massive growth in the ratio of non-local female researchers and a minor growth in the non-local male researchers’ rates, meanwhile, there was a moderate decrease in the ratios of local male and female researchers.
According to the table, the number of national research students rose from 33,657 in 2001 to 39,488 in 2010. Meanwhile, the number of International research students increased 3 times from 5,192 in 2001 to 14,593 through the end of the period, the total growth for both categories increased from 38,849 to 54,081.
According to the pie charts, local males presented 44.0% of the total share in 2001, their percentage slightly dropped to 38% in 2010. the local females also showed a downward trend, decreasing from 43% at the beginning of the period, to 35% at the end of it. thus, the total percentage of local researchers declined from 87% to 73%. In contrast, non-local male rates grew from 9% to 12%. Moreover, the rates of non-local females rapidly increased from 4% to 15%, elevating the total non-local rates from 13% in 2001 to 27% in 2010.