The table above illustrates the numbers of students who traveled to a Western country from China, India, Japan, and Brazil to study internationally at the university level for the years 2000 and 2005.
Overall, the number of students rapidly decreased in China and slightly grew smaller in Japan; on the other hand, India vaguely increased, and Brazil had a leap after five years. Despite the change, China still stayed the highest number in both years.
In the year 2000, the number of Chinese students who went to study abroad accounted for the majority and more than half compared to the total amount, which was 35,000 students, whereas the combined students between India (15,000), Japan (6,000), and Brazil (2,000) were 23,000 students.
Five years later, China was still holding the lead with 22,000 students, but drastically less than the year we observed above, and another country with a slight change, Japan, only down 2,000 students. As for the other two countries, India and Brazil, their students both increased over time, with only a slight boost in Inida with 1,000 students, but in Brazil, its number took a massive raise, not that massive, but still six times more than India, which was 6,000 more students.