The bar chart and table show information about students from abroad studying in four English-speaking countries in 2004 and 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the

number

of

students

from abroad studying in the USA, the UK, Australia, and Canada in the

years

2004 and 2012. The table shows data about the percentage of foreign ones of total student numbers in

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the four

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mentioned countries.

It is clear that

America has the largest

number

of international

students

in both

years

, comprising 150,000 and around 250,000,

whereas

Canada has the smallest

number

, accounting for under 50,000 and slightly over 50,000 respectively.

According to

the bar graph, we can see that all the figures in 2012

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higher than in 2004. They all experienced increases of between 20,000 and 100,000 approximately. Among them, the biggest rise was seen in the UK, from around 120,000 in 2004 to 200,000 8

years

later.

Furthermore

, Australia had the same

number

of international pupils as the United Kingdom in the first year and it rose to 190,000

at the end

of the timeframe. Moving on to the table chart, it can be seen that, Australia had the highest percentage of overseas

students

across any other countries, with 19% in 2004 and 24% in 2012, followed by the UK and Canada.

On the other hand

, even though the US had the largest

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population

of international

students

, the percentage of them was a mere 2% in both

years

.