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Total inbound internationally mobile students, male (number) by country

Total number of male students who have crossed a national or territorial border for the purpose of education and are now enrolled in tertiary institutions outside their country of origin.

Countries reporting
100
Highest
550,286 number
United States
Lowest
0 number
Seychelles
Median
4,968 number
Years covered
23
1997–2019
Data points
1,983

What the numbers show

Total inbound internationally mobile students, male (number) is currently reported for 100 countries. The highest value is 550,286 number in United States; the lowest is 0 number in Seychelles.

The median across all reporting countries is 4,968 number, and the mean is 26,531 number.

Over the past decade 76 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritius (up 3,077.1%), and the largest decrease in Chile (down 56.0%).

Total inbound internationally mobile students, male: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 United States 550,286 number 2017 up 68.1% rising
2 Australia 234,841 number 2018 up 91.3% rising
3 United Kingdom 207,696 number 2018 up 16.3% rising
4 Germany 165,646 number 2018 up 68.7% rising
5 Canada 120,963 number 2018 up 133.3% volatile
6 France 113,603 number 2018 down 5.6% flat
7 China 109,995 number 2019 up 227.8% rising
8 Japan 100,640 number 2018 up 55.3% rising
9 Turkey 81,783 number 2018 up 504.3% volatile
10 Malaysia 57,153 number 2019 up 50.7% rising
11 Netherlands 47,886 number 2018 up 278.9% volatile
12 Italy 46,200 number 2018 up 41.4% rising
13 Saudi Arabia 40,481 number 2019 up 232.6% volatile
14 United Arab Emirates 38,975 number 2016 up 58.6% rising
15 Egypt 37,258 number 2016 up 46.7% rising
16 South Korea 36,676 number 2018 up 77.9% volatile
17 Austria 35,111 number 2018 up 41.2% rising
18 Spain 34,396 number 2018 up 103.3% rising
19 India 32,395 number 2019 up 87.4% rising
20 Jordan 28,775 number 2018 up 60.6% rising
21 Switzerland 27,254 number 2018 up 66.7% rising
22 Poland 27,208 number 2018 up 262.3% volatile
23 New Zealand 26,705 number 2018 up 62.8% rising
24 Singapore 26,213 number 2018 up 18.2% rising
25 South Africa 23,727 number 2018 down 22.9% rising
26 Belgium 22,350 number 2018 up 80.4% rising
27 Czechia 20,834 number 2018 up 53.8% rising
28 Hong Kong 17,608 number 2019 up 300.7% volatile
29 Hungary 16,355 number 2018 up 110.1% rising
30 Denmark 16,000 number 2018 up 449.3% volatile
31 Romania 15,939 number 2018 up 108.4% rising
32 Sweden 15,674 number 2018 up 17.1% rising
33 Morocco 14,672 number 2019 up 130.8% volatile
34 Thailand 14,347 number 2016 up 335.0% volatile
35 Portugal 13,614 number 2018 up 270.4% rising
36 Greece 13,194 number 2018 up 0.7% rising
37 Finland 13,013 number 2018 up 102.5% volatile
38 Lebanon 12,499 number 2012 up 23.5% rising
39 Kyrgyzstan 12,269 number 2019 up 36.8% rising
40 Brazil 11,882 number 2018 up 46.4% rising
41 Iran 11,308 number 2018 up 1,483.8% volatile
42 Belarus 10,717 number 2018 — rising
44 Senegal 10,023 number 2019 up 89.4% rising
45 Bulgaria 8,561 number 2018 up 51.7% rising
46 Georgia 8,021 number 2019 — volatile
47 Cyprus 7,764 number 2018 up 40.9% rising
48 Macao 7,451 number 2019 down 11.6% falling
49 Norway 5,954 number 2018 down 13.1% flat
50 Serbia 5,575 number 2019 up 13.2% rising
51 Slovakia 5,116 number 2018 up 73.5% volatile
52 Latvia 4,820 number 2018 up 514.0% volatile
53 Qatar 4,807 number 2019 up 139.2% volatile
54 Dominican Republic 4,735 number 2017 down 37.8% falling
55 Vietnam 4,463 number 2019 up 51.2% volatile
56 Israel 4,341 number 2014 — rising
57 Ghana 3,843 number 2019 down 37.6% falling
58 Benin 3,766 number 2018 up 51.9% rising
59 Lithuania 3,500 number 2018 up 153.3% volatile
60 Bahrain 3,093 number 2019 up 799.1% volatile
61 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,090 number 2019 up 22.9% rising
62 Niger 2,948 number 2019 up 213.6% volatile
63 Cote d'Ivoire 2,885 number 2017 down 53.0% volatile
64 Azerbaijan 2,834 number 2019 down 44.2% falling
65 Armenia 2,724 number 2019 down 1.8% rising
66 Chile 2,682 number 2018 down 56.0% volatile
67 Moldova 2,674 number 2019 up 145.5% rising
68 Estonia 2,513 number 2018 up 425.7% volatile
69 Colombia 2,396 number 2018 — rising
70 Croatia 2,282 number 2018 up 35.3% volatile
71 Burkina Faso 2,148 number 2019 up 70.6% rising
72 North Macedonia 1,848 number 2018 up 122.9% volatile
73 Oman 1,785 number 2019 up 93.2% rising
74 Albania 1,776 number 2019 up 79.6% volatile
75 Burundi 1,716 number 2018 up 42.8% flat
77 Namibia 1,607 number 2017 down 1.4% rising
78 Rwanda 1,605 number 2019 up 287.7% volatile
79 Tajikistan 1,575 number 2017 up 3.9% falling
80 Slovenia 1,518 number 2018 up 170.1% rising
81 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,491 number 2014 — volatile
82 Madagascar 1,356 number 2018 up 71.2% rising
83 Honduras 1,342 number 2018 up 70.5% rising
84 Mauritius 1,112 number 2017 up 3,077.1% volatile
85 Sri Lanka 992 number 2019 up 59.0% rising
86 Mongolia 776 number 2018 up 16.9% rising
88 El Salvador 601 number 2018 up 35.4% rising
89 Iceland 569 number 2018 up 105.4% volatile
90 Mali 496 number 2015 — falling
92 Mozambique 432 number 2018 up 61.8% rising
92 Trinidad and Tobago 432 number 2004 down 20.6% falling
94 Laos 314 number 2019 down 37.6% volatile
95 Brunei 193 number 2019 up 27.8% volatile
96 Andorra 126 number 2019 up 70.3% rising
97 Aruba 109 number 2016 up 55.7% volatile
98 Cape Verde 99 number 2018 up 2.1% rising
99 Lesotho 40 number 2018 down 21.6% volatile
100 Bermuda 25 number 2018 up 4.2% rising
101 Comoros 0 number 2014 — flat
101 Djibouti 0 number 2011 — flat
101 Palestine 0 number 2019 — volatile
101 Seychelles 0 number 2019 — flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Total inbound internationally mobile students, male (number)
Unit
number
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
142 places, 1,983 data points, 1997–2019
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Total number of male students who have crossed a national or territorial border for the purpose of education and are now enrolled in tertiary institutions outside their country of origin.