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

The picture illustrates 4 different countries of residence of visitors moving to Australia for educational purposes.

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it is clear that

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the selection of the four places of residence is only in the Asian continent , representing a diversification with Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and

finally

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Singapore. The key places in the graph are all increasing over the years. For almost all of them, the year 1986 was the beginning of an important growth.

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, Indonesia has been the country attracting the most exchange students, especially in the year 1998, when we can

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observe a skyrocketing increase at

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point, with 23,000 people moving to study.

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, nowadays, some countries in Asia attract many people for education since 1982. Even though we can see a small decrease

at the end

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of the period, in 1999, for all countries, even for Singapore, which continues to grow at a steady pace.