The two tables represent the number of students from foreign country in Canada and the united states of America respectively in 2002 and 2003 along with the change percentage.
Overall, the total number of international students showed the upward trend in both country in 2003; however the total change percentages was greater in Canada. Nevertheless, the USA had higher number of international students than Canada.
To begin with, there were 5400 chinese in Canada under student visa policy, which is the highest from all nations, rose by 45% in 2003. Similarly, around 5,000 USA citizens were studying in 2002, which reached to 5,450 in 2003. Moreover, number of Indian learner also increased by 35% and reached 2,835 in 2003.
In reference to foreigner as students in the USA, highest number was occupied by Indian(200,000 in 2002) which witnessed the dip of 9% in 2003. Both, students from China and Canada increased by 6% and 7% respectively and reached 116,600 and 33,170. At the last, the number of canadian people studying in usa us much greater than the people from the USA in Canada at student permits.