You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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.

The graph presented portrays four countries of residence of overseas

students

in Australia.

Overall

, it can be clearly seen that among the four countries,

students

choose Indonesia more often. In 1982 the only country in which

students

attended university was

Malaysia

at around 8000 of all the

students

overseas at that time.

This

count stayed more or less constant until 1990 when it suddenly increased to 20000

students

in

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period until 1998. In 1984 some Australian residents started education in Indonesia. The student count in

this

country kept growing, overtook Hong Kong,

Malaysia

and Singapore in 1994 and ultimately reached the climax of around 26000

students

in 1998. During the following 2 years until

2000

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2000,

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this

number

dropped slightly to around 24000. Another similar tendency can be seen in Hong Kong, where the

number

of

students

exploded in a period of one year from none to 5 thousand

students

in 1987. Just like in

Indonesia

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this

number

kept rising in the following years peaking at 20000 undergraduates in 1997.

Malaysia

started receiving

students

from Australia in 1988(later than any of the four countries). The

number

of

students

in

Malaysia

,

however

, did not experience any decline and

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growing ever since. Reaching just below 20000 undergraduates in 2000.