These given charts illustrate the details concerning the number of international students in two countries in 2002 and 2003 and the changes in the rise in student population during this 2-year period.
Generally, it could be obviously witnesses that the overall number of international students in both Canada and America experienced an upward trajectory throughout this period. Moreover, both of these two countries saw an decrease in the number of students who came from the USA, while the figure for students from China and India increased to different extents in Canada and the USA.
Upon closer examination of the data, the overall number of international students in the USA was significantly higher than that of students in Canada in both 2002 and 2003, which was less than a third. Besides, in the USA, the changes in the number of students from China was the largest among the three countries, with an increase of 33%.
Furthermore, in Canada, the number of students from India experienced the sharpest increase from 2002 to 2003, with an increase of 50%. In addition, the figure for students from the USA decreased slightly during this period, from 2243 in 2002 to 2101 in 2003.