The graph below shows four countries of residence of overseas students in Australia. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Australia plays host to international students from all over the world.

This

line graph provides data on the student numbers from four Asian countries between 1982 and 2000.

Overall

, visitor arrivals from all four nations increased during the reference period, with Indonesian students constituting the largest group, and those from Malaysia the smallest by the end of the recording interval. In 1982, there were approximately five thousand Malaysian scholars accessing Australian-based education, advancing quickly to around 8000 the following year.

In contrast

, visitors from Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore were virtually non-existent at the time, and it was only in the late eighties that the proportion of students from these areas started to rise. The nineties,

on the other hand

, were marked by an influx of Indonesian learners. After a period of steady growth, Indonesia overtook Malaysia in 1993, with numbers rocketing to roughly twenty-six thousand by 1998, and peaking at twenty-seven thousand in the following year. A sudden drop in entries from all countries, bar Singapore, occurred in 1999, but stats for 2000 showed recovery with Indonesia remaining in the top spot.