Open Doors 2008
Report on International Educational Exchange
Institute of International Education
IEP STUDENTS AND STUDENT-WEEKS BY PLACE OF ORIGIN, 2006 & 2007
	2006	2007	%	2006	2007	%
Place of Origin	Students	Students	Change	Student-Weeks	Student-Weeks	Change
AFRICA	895	1014	13.3	13,409	13,437	0.2
East Africa	83	80	-3.6	898	1,179	31.3
Burundi	13	6	-53.8	199	98	-50.8
Comoros	0	3	-	0	31	-
Eritrea	1	2	100.0	19	14	-24.6
Ethiopia	13	10	-23.1	142	158	10.9
Kenya	13	17	30.8	134	161	20.2
Madagascar	6	3	-50.0	20	25	25.3
Malawi	1	0	-100.0	12	0	-100.0
Mauritius	1	1	0.0	29	42	44.0
Mozambique	4	4	0.0	20	47	132.7
Rwanda	7	14	100.0	123	208	68.8
Somalia	2	0	-100.0	9	0	-100.0
Tanzania	16	7	-56.3	132	204	54.6
Uganda	3	7	133.3	22	131	496.6
Zambia	2	4	100.0	14	11	-23.3
Zimbabwe	1	2	100.0	23	50	117.9
Central Africa	308	301	-2.3	4,007	3,422	-14.6
Angola	90	86	-4.4	1,294	1,254	-3.1
Cameroon	50	44	-12.0	816	513	-37.1
Central African Republic	2	0	-100.0	21	0	-100.0
Chad	8	13	62.5	147	166	12.8
Congo	14	23	64.3	209	286	37.0
Congo/Zaire, Former	9	7	-22.2	229	146	-36.4
Equatorial Guinea	26	18	-30.8	438	215	-51.0
Gabon	78	109	39.7	853	833	-2.4
São Tomé & Príncipe	31	1	-96.8	*	10	-
North Africa	171	258	50.9	2,029	3,720	83.4
Algeria	3	15	400.0	26	316	1,116.2
Egypt	45	43	-4.4	492	582	18.4
Libya	52	145	178.8	754	2,163	186.9
Morocco	41	20	-51.2	316	218	-30.9
Sudan	15	9	-40.0	244	184	-24.7
Tunisia	15	26	73.3	197	257	30.2
Southern Africa	11	18	63.6	64	138	116.3
Botswana	2	3	50.0	9	41	350.8
Lesotho	0	1	-	0	*	-
Namibia	2	0	-100.0	24	0	-100.0
South Africa	5	10	100.0	12	88	635.8
Swaziland	2	4	100.0	19	10	-49.8
West Africa	322	357	10.9	6,411	4,978	-22.4
Benin	28	48	71.4	434	533	22.9
Burkina Faso	36	51	41.7	550	708	28.7
Cote d'Ivoire	54	73	35.2	1,109	926	-16.5
Gambia	2	0	-100.0	21	0	-100.0
Ghana	4	4	0.0	50	86	71.8
Guinea	26	36	38.5	328	642	95.7
Guinea-Bissau	2	3	50.0	33	31	-6.0
Liberia	2	2	0.0	*	41	-
Mali	47	53	12.8	782	933	19.3
Mauritania	11	8	-27.3	86	123	42.9
Niger	38	17	-55.3	590	323	-45.2
Nigeria	7	19	171.4	136	205	50.9
Senegal	38	24	-36.8	1,942	315	-83.8
Sierra Leone	2	0	-100.0	42	0	-100.0
Togo	25	19	-24.0	308	112	-63.6
ASIA	26,670	33,592	26.0	368,593	417,220	13.2
East Asia	24,142	30,084	24.6	331,442	374,595	13.0
China	1,461	3,134	114.5	18,686	44,642	138.9
Hong Kong	283	372	31.4	4,244	4,296	1.2
Japan	7,453	7,917	6.2	94,649	84,220	-11.0
North Korea	37	10	-73.0	1,624	*	-
South Korea	10,026	12,586	25.5	141,336	171,872	21.6
Macau	5	15	200.0	71	189	165.5
Mongolia	129	124	-3.9	1,964	2,261	15.1
Taiwan	4,748	5,926	24.8	68,868	67,110	-2.6
South & Central Asia	669	618	-7.6	9,276	7,097	-23.5
Afghanistan	48	108	125.0	479	617	28.8
Bangladesh	19	8	-57.9	189	75	-60.2
Bhutan	2	1	-50.0	19	14	-24.6
India	194	241	24.2	2,648	3,434	29.7
Kazakhstan	250	64	-74.4	3,730	581	-84.4
Kyrgyzstan	20	15	-25.0	339	334	-1.4
Nepal	24	42	75.0	281	378	34.6
Pakistan	40	31	-22.5	504	329	-34.7
Sri Lanka	27	31	14.8	552	424	-23.3
Tajikistan	10	42	320.0	163	615	277.0
Turkmenistan	4	8	100.0	54	43	-20.5
Uzbekistan	31	27	-12.9	318	253	-20.5
Southeast Asia	1,859	2,890	55.5	27,875	35,528	27.5
Cambodia	36	50	38.9	741	620	-16.3
Indonesia	244	339	38.9	3,124	2,796	-10.5
Laos	12	20	66.7	118	263	122.5
Malaysia	36	49	36.1	544	505	-7.2
Myanmar	3	19	533.3	62	185	198.3
Philippines	29	31	6.9	271	441	62.9
Singapore	7	4	-42.9	89	26	-70.5
Thailand	975	1,279	31.2	13,105	14,673	12.0
Vietnam	517	1,099	112.6	9,821	16,019	63.1
MIDDLE EAST	5,842	7,100	21.5	138,785	124,285	-10.4
Bahrain	7	10	42.9	129	138	7.3
Iran	66	84	27.3	949	1,151	21.3
Iraq	24	31	29.2	334	393	17.5
Israel	50	115	130.0	836	537	-35.8
Jordan	83	66	-20.5	976	1,035	6.0
Kuwait	129	176	36.4	2,042	2,493	22.1
Lebanon	16	33	106.3	226	1,013	348.3
Oman	26	19	-26.9	424	323	-23.7
Palestinian Authority	46	41	-10.9	689	600	-12.9
Qatar	55	117	112.7	1,005	1,752	74.3
Saudi Arabia	5,047	6,117	21.2	126,996	110,428	-13.0
Syria	38	34	-10.5	479	510	6.4
United Arab Emirates	216	227	5.1	3,087	3,596	16.5
Yemen	39	30	-23.1	613	316	-48.4
EUROPE	6,012	6,266	4.2	55,401	63,487	14.6
Albania	10	19	90.0	126	193	53.4
Armenia	5	8	60.0	149	187	25.7
Austria	37	50	35.1	299	393	31.3
Azerbaijan	15	24	60.0	119	290	143.7
Belarus	6	14	133.3	43	84	94.2
Belgium	30	27	-10.0	326	273	-16.2
Bosnia & Herzegovina	24	15	-37.5	304	167	-45.0
Bulgaria	32	28	-12.5	451	254	-43.6
Croatia	11	8	-27.3	112	80	-28.6
Cyprus	3	7	133.3	26	105	303.9
Czech Republic	63	34	-46.0	531	332	-37.5
Denmark	13	5	-61.5	77	57	-25.6
Estonia	4	3	-25.0	58	26	-54.7
Finland	7	10	42.9	30	156	421.0
France	1,008	976	-3.2	7,688	7,462	-2.9
Georgia	13	11	-15.4	102	124	21.7
Germany	535	541	1.1	5,704	6,038	5.9
Greece	23	9	-60.9	266	70	-73.5
Hungary	71	39	-45.1	390	468	19.9
Iceland	3	2	-33.3	22	23	3.1
Ireland	1	1	0.0	*	*	-
Italy	769	682	-11.3	4,626	5,299	14.6
Kosovo	1	11	1,000.0	9	58	549.6
Latvia	15	8	-46.7	74	105	41.9
Liechtenstein	3	9	200.0	22	66	198.3
Lithuania	7	8	14.3	78	67	-14.3
Luxembourg	3	0	-100.0	54	0	-100.0
Macedonia	6	14	133.3	49	254	418.7
Moldova	3	14	366.7	97	167	72.2
Monaco	0	2	-	0	14	-
Montenegro	0	1	-	0	18	-
Netherlands	12	23	91.7	175	249	42.5
Norway	23	29	26.1	226	408	80.6
Poland	227	166	-26.9	2,702	2,608	-3.5
Portugal	19	34	78.9	181	364	101.1
Romania	16	20	25.0	188	280	49.2
Russia	223	289	29.6	2,424	3,043	25.5
San Marino	3	0	-100.0	*	0	-
Serbia	16	19	18.8	166	328	97.7
Slovakia	16	18	12.5	183	138	-24.4
Slovenia	3	3	0.0	33	19	-42.1
Spain	679	619	-8.8	4,420	4,551	3.0
Sweden	72	94	30.6	654	1,280	95.8
Switzerland	936	753	-19.6	9,030	7,230	-19.9
Turkey	969	1,519	56.8	12,095	18,929	56.5
Ukraine	70	89	27.1	994	1,122	12.8
United Kingdom	7	11	57.1	98	105	7.1
LATIN AMERICA	5,138	5,850	13.9	55,027	67,689	23.0
Caribbean	150	242	61.3	1,471	3,797	158.1
Aruba	2	2	0.0	32	19	-40.3
Bahamas	0	1	-	0	38	-
Cuba	13	14	7.7	222	126	-43.0
Dominica	2	1	-50.0	*	5	-
Dominican Republic	82	165	101.2	727	2,512	245.5
Guadeloupe	2	0	-100.0	*	0	-
Haiti	36	54	50.0	411	944	129.6
Jamaica	0	3	-	0	148	-
Martinique	12	1	-91.7	79	5	-94.0
Netherlands Antilles	1	0	-100.0	*	0	-
St. Vincent & Grenadines	0	1	-	0	*	-
Central America & Mexico	1,124	1,003	-10.8	12,632	14,652	16.0
Belize	4	0	-100.0	*	0	-
Costa Rica	46	39	-15.2	578	402	-30.4
El Salvador	41	28	-31.7	546	505	-7.6
Guatemala	48	37	-22.9	448	546	22.0
Honduras	29	43	48.3	452	805	78.2
Mexico	827	708	-14.4	8,837	10,891	23.2
Nicaragua	25	29	16.0	414	443	6.9
Panama	104	119	14.4	1,357	1,060	-21.9
South America	3,864	4,605	19.2	40,924	49,240	20.3
Argentina	176	183	4.0	1,358	1,921	41.5
Bolivia	78	84	7.7	645	1,217	88.7
Brazil	1,572	2,177	38.5	14,351	19,108	33.1
Chile	340	261	-23.2	2,642	3,206	21.4
Colombia	668	731	9.4	8,429	8,317	-1.3
Ecuador	236	227	-3.8	2,688	2,688	0.0
Paraguay	51	70	37.3	727	1,024	40.8
Peru	168	178	6.0	1,971	3,079	56.2
Uruguay	14	8	-42.9	105	75	-28.4
Venezuela	561	686	22.3	8,008	8,604	7.4
NORTH AMERICA	41	27	-34.1	430	214	-50.3
Canada	41	27	-34.1	430	214	-50.3
OCEANIA	97	83	-14.4	2,091	1,727	-17.4
Australia	1	5	400.0	18	50	178.4
Cook Islands	4	0	-100.0	98	0	-
Fiji	10	15	50.0	180	284	57.8
French Polynesia	13	13	0.0	207	326	57.4
Micronesia	5	0	-100.0	147	0	-
New Caledonia	3	2	-33.3	83	58	-29.6
New Zealand	1	1	0.0	41	29	-30.2
Niue	0	1	-	0	17	-
Papua New Guinea	4	2	-50.0	100	27	-72.6
Samoa	19	13	-31.6	392	242	-38.2
Tonga	35	31	-11.4	785	693	-11.7
Tuvalu	1	0	-100.0	16	0	-
Vanuatu	1	0	-100.0	24	0	-
STATELESS	0	3	-	0	57	-
UNKNOWN	472	552	16.9	2,786	2,367	-15.0
WORLD TOTAL	45,167	54,487	20.6	636,522	690,483	8.5
* Data not available.