The graph below shows four countries of residence of overseas students in Australia.

The line graph illustrates the changing trends in the

numbers

of students, in

1000s

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, who visited Australia for education from four different

countries

between 1982 and 2000.

Overall

it is evident that visitor

numbers

from all four

countries

increased over the time period. At the start of the period,

while

Malaysia had around 5,000 students per year visiting Australia, the other

countries

had none.

However

, though remaining at the highest number up until 1990 and increasing

after

this

, visitors number from Malaysia finished at the lowest levels of all the

countries

, at around 18,000. The lack of student visitors continued

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Hong Kong and Singapore up until 1987. At that point arrivals from Singapore gradually increased over the years, culminating in nearly 20,000 visitors per year in 2000,

while

arrivals from Hong Kong showed a more erratic pattern, fluctuating after 1996 and finishing at 19,000 per year.

However

, the biggest change was seen in

numbers

coming from Indonesia. Though

this

started low, arrivals kept increasing over the years.

Numbers

peaked in 1998 at approximately 28,000, before dropping to final arrival

numbers

of 23,000, which exceeded all the other

countries

.