The provided tables illustrate the figures for foreign students of three nationalities pursuing their studies in Canada and America and the changes in percentage in the years of 2002 and 2003.
Overall, what stands out from the charts is that the quantities of those studying overseas in Canada and the USA witnessed an upward trend in all countries over the years in question, except for Indian students studying in America. It is also notable that the aggregate of foreign students in America remarkably outnumbered that of Canada, even though the latter’s degree of increase was much lower than the former.
As regards individuals doing their education abroad in Canada, China topped the other surveyed nations during the given period, standing at 5,400 and 7,850 students respectively. This Asian country also recorded the highest increase of 45% compared to the others. Next came America, which sent 5,000 citizens to Canada for learning purposes in 2002 and 450 more students in the following year. Finally, the figure for overseas students originated in India was the lowest over these years, with 2,100 in 2002 prior to a surge of 35%, reaching 2,835 in 2003.
Turning to America, despite the lowest share of international students in Canada, India recorded the most overseas ones in the USA, peaking at 200,000 in 2002 before marginally dropping to 182,000 after one year. This was followed by China as 110,000 and 116,600 Chinese people were sent to America for studies in both years, which was equal to a rise of 6%. Canada reported the lowest figure since the number of students flying to the US for their learning journey ranged from 31,000 to around 33,000. Hence, the number of overseas students in America was nearly ninefold as high as than that of Canada in both years, amounting to/totaling 581,000 and 592,000 in turn.