International students by top 50 countries

International students with a valid permit on December 31st by top 50 countries of citizenship from2004 to 2013

Country	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
China, People’s Republic of	39,954	40,021	39,993	41,113	43,101	50,446	57,339	68,469	81,444	95,731
India	6,680	7,153	7,464	7,929	8,286	11,682	20,281	27,339	32,243	34,887
Korea, Republic of	26,700	27,596	29,551	30,676	28,976	27,166	25,301	22,631	20,285	19,123
France	6,677	6,952	8,125	9,005	9,377	10,358	11,365	12,715	14,748	16,486
Saudi Arabia	881	1,126	1,261	2,013	4,463	8,413	12,267	14,180	13,930	13,955
United States of America	12,807	13,130	12,920	12,835	12,226	12,128	12,156	12,191	12,302	12,263
Brazil	1,183	1,344	1,531	1,959	2,396	2,415	2,722	3,270	5,126	7,757
Nigeria	1,348	1,560	1,643	1,919	2,178	2,820	3,648	4,432	5,481	6,903
Japan	8,983	9,057	8,310	7,662	6,592	6,113	5,874	6,018	6,486	6,604
Mexico	3,384	3,601	3,839	3,861	3,879	4,184	4,384	4,801	4,977	5,306
Iran	2,110	2,558	2,342	2,390	2,649	3,507	3,930	4,755	5,229	5,177
Vietnam	1,751	1,695	1,480	1,385	1,574	1,930	2,595	3,110	3,523	4,173
Pakistan	1,836	1,795	1,839	1,915	2,034	2,271	2,612	3,161	3,588	4,045
Taiwan	5,247	4,928	4,853	4,683	4,122	3,816	3,639	3,370	3,358	3,500
United Kingdom and Colonies	6,685	5,944	5,404	5,021	4,627	4,151	3,563	3,360	3,352	3,462
Russia	783	864	907	1,072	1,340	1,482	1,619	2,026	2,566	3,166
Germany	2,294	2,462	2,588	2,947	3,141	3,102	3,142	2,790	2,886	2,629
Hong Kong	1,993	2,397	2,663	2,812	2,912	2,956	2,864	2,514	2,325	2,551
Bangladesh	1,731	1,718	1,651	1,555	1,573	1,664	1,827	1,983	2,044	2,401
Morocco	1,495	1,563	1,723	1,930	2,110	2,335	2,147	2,065	2,047	2,069
Philippines	511	543	523	713	882	1,153	1,127	1,338	1,644	2,003
Turkey	1,114	1,176	1,194	1,260	1,299	1,562	1,643	1,685	1,712	1,869
Venezuela	595	607	658	802	814	834	1,067	1,205	1,516	1,678
Ukraine	370	354	375	426	524	699	701	904	1,208	1,600
Colombia	1,656	1,298	923	984	1,204	1,587	1,612	1,488	1,550	1,568
Malaysia	959	928	862	881	1,037	1,227	1,384	1,578	1,555	1,476
Thailand	998	982	995	1,001	1,001	1,055	1,162	1,303	1,446	1,473
Tunisia	1,022	920	872	913	1,000	1,237	1,264	1,201	1,221	1,383
Egypt	569	619	770	915	956	1,054	1,075	1,132	1,200	1,338
Libya	533	515	497	442	524	631	704	525	637	1,334
Cameroon, Federal Republic of	522	495	529	580	585	719	778	816	1,016	1,275
Indonesia, Republic of	1,660	1,583	1,412	1,314	1,197	1,080	1,018	1,038	1,094	1,167
Jamaica	427	383	398	427	646	747	827	917	952	1,148
Spain	247	290	349	385	409	493	530	627	793	1,129
Algeria	218	221	233	331	415	478	504	605	832	1,001
Senegal	450	534	549	646	700	821	786	803	880	997
Italy	384	351	386	427	490	525	571	641	747	890
Ghana	575	513	437	467	464	548	552	587	700	878
Kazakhstan	47	68	132	262	363	476	552	638	740	831
Australia	734	806	751	814	760	723	731	729	803	813
Ivory Coast, Republic of	388	360	344	391	423	469	497	486	630	760
Congo, People’s Republic of the	49	32	42	55	46	70	94	110	697	725
Kenya	806	653	567	572	570	641	662	646	660	702
Lebanon	786	717	694	750	721	798	751	700	663	660
Switzerland	508	536	573	523	555	629	563	615	687	633
Haiti	395	423	448	543	691	895	859	760	695	623
Jordan	480	464	467	519	526	613	605	589	598	602
South Africa, Republic of	559	554	544	540	618	655	619	626	629	598
Israel	646	571	564	566	538	506	503	544	566	569
Sri Lanka	699	571	502	547	542	550	530	544	555	567
Country not stated	256	216	219	278	278	335	350	330	317	375
Total unique persons	168,639	170,468	172,375	179,155	184,179	204,052	225,395	248,827	275,883	304,876