The presented table illustrates the number of international students from four countries – China, the US, India, and Canada – who were studying in either the USA or Canada between 2002 and 2003. The data are given as the number of people.
Overall, it is evident that there were roughly ten times more foreign students in the US than in Canada in 2002, whereas by 2003 the difference decreased, as Canada witnessed a rapid growth in the number of non-Canadian students.
Focusing on Canada, Chinese students accounted for the largest share of the studied groups in both 2002 and 2003 (5,400 and 7,850, respectively). Meanwhile, Americans came second, with 5,000 and 5,450 of them attending Canadian universities in 2002 and 2003. The students of Indian origin constituted the smallest proportion, and their figures stood at 2,100 and 2,835, respectively.
With regard to the US, India represented around one-third of the total number of international students in the US from 2002 to 2003 (200,000 and 182,000, respectively). Additionally, the share of Chinese students, who ranked second, was approximately four times larger than that of the Canadians over the studied period.