International student mobility by world region
From which regions of the world do most students in Germany come and in which regions do most students from the USA study?
With our interactive chart on international student mobility, you can answer these questions with just a few clicks, based on UNESCO student statistics. The term ‘international students’ refers to students in a country who have travelled to that country to study (and therefore have a foreign higher education entrance qualification). International students’ are students from one country who have left that country to study in another country. They are therefore the same people, just from different perspectives, once from the perspective of the host country (international students) and once from the perspective of the country of origin (international students).
First select the country from the drop-down menu that interests you as the host country or country of origin (default setting: Germany). If you are interested in the regions of origin of international students in the country in question, leave the mobility direction setting at ‘Inbound’. If, on the other hand, you are interested in the host regions of international students from this country, move the slider for the direction of mobility to ‘Outbound’. You can also select the status of the data using the ‘Year’ slider; here you can select the data from the last five years of the UNESCO student statistics. Once you have made all the settings, you only need to confirm them by clicking the ‘Apply settings’ button. The data will then be displayed according to your selection in the three figures below the selection menu.
By clicking on the three dashes in the top right-hand corner of each figure, you can download the data as a figure or Excel data file (the figures are subject to a Creative Commons licence of the type CC-BY-SA). You can also call up the data as a table by clicking on the ‘Table’ tab in the top left-hand corner of the world map graphic. You can zoom in and out of the world map using the plus and minus buttons in the top left-hand corner of the world map graphic. You can use the four round icons to the left of the world map graphic to link to the page in social media (Facebook, X, LinkedIn) or send it as a link by email.
Tip for advanced users: Under ‘Further settings’, you can choose between displaying absolute values (student numbers, default setting) and displaying percentage values (percentage of the total number of international students or international students in or from a world region). You can use the second slider to switch the filling in of individual missing values with the respective previous year’s values on and off (default setting: On).
