The chart gives information on the percentage of women going into higher education in five countries for the years 1980 and 2015.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The coupled bars compare the proportions of female students enrolling in university and college in five nations, the UK, the USA, Australia, South Korea, and France. The data is shown for two-time points: 1980 and 2015.
Overall, the rates of women in five examined countries apart from Australia, choosing to study in higher institutions in 2015 were much larger than that in 1980. Moreover, the values for higher school registrations went up between 1980 and 2015.
To be more specific, percentages of Australian female pupils made up the most with the USA compared to other nations, at nearly 60 percent in 1980 and remained unchanged until 2015. Additionally, proportions of female students coming from the UK and the USA shared a similar upward value of 20 percent in two surveyed years, 35 percent versus 55 percent in the UK and 38 percent versus 58 percent in the USA. In France, the percentages of school-leavers climbed slightly from exactly 50 percent to nearly 55 percent in the 35-year period. Significantly, Korean school girls who went to higher education occupied the least amount, it modestly started at only 15 percent, but doubled that of neatly 30 percent.
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