The graph bellow shows the number of visitors to three museums between 2000 and 2010.

The chart displays the trend of museum visitors in New York, Tokyo, and China between 2000 and 2005.

Overall

, New York and Tokyo have started out strongly but

then

dropped in the middle before

finally

picking up again,

while

China has had a gradual rise over the years. The data is based on their growth annually and the number of people is counted in millions.

First,

the Edo Museum in Tokyo ranked the highest by maintaining a high number of 14

million

people in 2000 and 2001 before coming down by 4

million

each year to 10

million

in 2002 and 6

million

in 2003 respectively. Since

then

, the numbers have been increasing steadily by 2

million

per year and reached back to 10

million

by the end of 2005.

Next,

at MET, New York, it had experienced a plunge to almost half since recorded in 2000 from 12 mills to 6 mills and remained stagnant for 2 years before starting to gain more interest and climbed back to 14 mills by 2005, ranking 2nd within the 3 spots. China,

on the other hand

, had the lowest number in the early year with only slightly over 6

million

but it has been growing steadily since

then

, hitting its peak at almost 16

million

people, which is recorded as the most recorded museum explorers among the three nations.