Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in Central Asia, both sexes (UIS estimate) (number) by country
February 2026 Data Release
Countries reporting
184
Highest
52,437
Uzbekistan
Lowest
0
Tuvalu
Median
6
Years covered
27
1997–2023
Data points
11,339
What the numbers show
Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in Central Asia, both sexes (UIS estimate) (number) is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 52,437 in Uzbekistan; the lowest is 0 in Tuvalu.
The median across all reporting countries is 6, and the mean is 842.23.
Over the past decade 66 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in United Kingdom (up 26,133.3%), and the largest decrease in Barbados (down 100.0%).
Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students … Central both: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 52,437 | 2023 | up 1,020.5% | volatile |
| 2 | India | 39,809 | 2023 | up 1,297.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Pakistan | 11,320 | 2023 | up 1,225.5% | volatile |
| 4 | Russia | 8,310 | 2023 | up 105.3% | rising |
| 5 | China | 4,921 | 2023 | up 190.8% | volatile |
| 6 | Kazakhstan | 4,408 | 2023 | down 5.4% | rising |
| 7 | Turkmenistan | 4,267 | 2023 | up 121.9% | volatile |
| 8 | Turkey | 4,110 | 2023 | up 3.0% | falling |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | 3,235 | 2023 | up 218.1% | volatile |
| 10 | Jordan | 2,742 | 2023 | up 8,209.1% | volatile |
| 11 | Iran | 2,246 | 2023 | up 93.6% | rising |
| 12 | Tajikistan | 1,824 | 2023 | up 21.5% | volatile |
| 13 | Israel | 1,408 | 2023 | up 4,441.9% | volatile |
| 14 | Afghanistan | 1,384 | 2023 | up 159.2% | volatile |
| 15 | Georgia | 1,318 | 2023 | up 44.2% | rising |
| 16 | Nigeria | 1,179 | 2023 | up 261.7% | volatile |
| 17 | Egypt | 1,155 | 2023 | up 12,733.3% | volatile |
| 18 | Kyrgyzstan | 1,140 | 2023 | up 83.9% | volatile |
| 19 | Mongolia | 902 | 2023 | up 44.3% | rising |
| 20 | United Kingdom | 787 | 2023 | up 26,133.3% | volatile |
| 21 | Lebanon | 618 | 2023 | up 4,020.0% | volatile |
| 22 | Syria | 593 | 2023 | up 292.7% | falling |
| 23 | Sudan | 591 | 2023 | up 8,342.9% | volatile |
| 24 | Iraq | 530 | 2023 | up 15.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Sri Lanka | 472 | 2023 | up 123.7% | volatile |
| 26 | Ukraine | 402 | 2023 | up 206.9% | rising |
| 27 | South Korea | 228 | 2023 | up 1.3% | volatile |
| 28 | United States | 221 | 2023 | up 245.3% | volatile |
| 29 | Yemen | 192 | 2023 | up 6,300.0% | volatile |
| 30 | Niger | 176 | 2023 | up 2,833.3% | volatile |
| 31 | Bangladesh | 157 | 2023 | up 1,470.0% | volatile |
| 32 | North Korea | 105 | 2023 | up 20.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Palestine | 93 | 2023 | up 481.2% | volatile |
| 34 | Germany | 87 | 2023 | up 64.2% | volatile |
| 35 | Belarus | 78 | 2023 | up 160.0% | volatile |
| 36 | Canada | 69 | 2023 | up 762.5% | volatile |
| 37 | Ghana | 61 | 2023 | up 2,950.0% | volatile |
| 37 | Ireland | 61 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 39 | Tunisia | 60 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 40 | South Africa | 52 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 41 | Australia | 49 | 2023 | up 600.0% | volatile |
| 42 | Lithuania | 48 | 2023 | up 166.7% | volatile |
| 43 | Armenia | 47 | 2023 | up 34.3% | rising |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 45 | 2023 | up 1,400.0% | volatile |
| 44 | Tanzania | 45 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 46 | Philippines | 42 | 2023 | up 2,000.0% | volatile |
| 47 | United Arab Emirates | 41 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 48 | Somalia | 37 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 49 | Nepal | 34 | 2023 | up 21.4% | volatile |
| 50 | Sweden | 33 | 2023 | up 560.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Zimbabwe | 33 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 52 | Indonesia | 32 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 53 | Morocco | 29 | 2023 | up 625.0% | volatile |
| 54 | Japan | 28 | 2023 | up 27.3% | rising |
| 55 | Angola | 25 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 55 | France | 25 | 2023 | up 316.7% | volatile |
| 57 | Algeria | 22 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 57 | Netherlands | 22 | 2023 | up 450.0% | volatile |
| 59 | Italy | 21 | 2023 | up 425.0% | volatile |
| 60 | Moldova | 20 | 2023 | down 88.6% | volatile |
| 61 | Kenya | 19 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 62 | Greece | 18 | 2023 | up 12.5% | volatile |
| 62 | Portugal | 18 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 64 | Kuwait | 15 | 2023 | up 1,400.0% | volatile |
| 64 | Libya | 15 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 66 | Bahrain | 14 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 66 | Spain | 14 | 2023 | up 180.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Hungary | 14 | 2023 | up 133.3% | volatile |
| 66 | Poland | 14 | 2023 | down 22.2% | volatile |
| 70 | Brazil | 13 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 70 | Laos | 13 | 2023 | down 73.5% | volatile |
| 70 | Romania | 13 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 73 | Cameroon | 12 | 2023 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 74 | Eritrea | 11 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 74 | Finland | 11 | 2023 | up 175.0% | volatile |
| 74 | Jamaica | 11 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 74 | Vietnam | 11 | 2023 | down 78.0% | volatile |
| 78 | Austria | 10 | 2023 | up 25.0% | volatile |
| 79 | Liberia | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 79 | Mozambique | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 79 | Malaysia | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 79 | Namibia | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 79 | Thailand | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 79 | British Virgin Islands | 9 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 85 | Cyprus | 8 | 2023 | up 700.0% | volatile |
| 85 | Mauritania | 8 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 87 | Gambia | 7 | 2023 | up 133.3% | volatile |
| 87 | Maldives | 7 | 2023 | up 75.0% | volatile |
| 87 | Malawi | 7 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 87 | Singapore | 7 | 2023 | up 250.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Congo | 6 | 2023 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Comoros | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Denmark | 6 | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Dominican Republic | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Fiji | 6 | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 91 | Myanmar | 6 | 2023 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Norway | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 91 | New Zealand | 6 | 2023 | up 200.0% | volatile |
| 91 | Chad | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Uganda | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 91 | Zambia | 6 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 102 | Ethiopia | 5 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 102 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 5 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 102 | Mexico | 5 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 102 | Oman | 5 | 2023 | up 400.0% | volatile |
| 102 | South Sudan | 5 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Albania | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Belgium | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Honduras | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Latvia | 4 | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 107 | Qatar | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Rwanda | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 107 | Sierra Leone | 4 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 115 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 115 | Bhutan | 3 | 2023 | up 50.0% | volatile |
| 115 | Czechia | 3 | 2023 | down 70.0% | volatile |
| 115 | Djibouti | 3 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 115 | Estonia | 3 | 2023 | down 40.0% | volatile |
| 115 | Cambodia | 3 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 115 | Mali | 3 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 115 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 2023 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 115 | Vanuatu | 3 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Bulgaria | 2 | 2023 | down 33.3% | volatile |
| 124 | Belize | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Botswana | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Central African Republic | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Switzerland | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Colombia | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Gabon | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Serbia | 2 | 2023 | up 100.0% | volatile |
| 124 | Suriname | 2 | 2023 | down 60.0% | volatile |
| 124 | Slovakia | 2 | 2023 | down 75.0% | volatile |
| 124 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 124 | Cook Islands | 2 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Burundi | 1 | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 136 | Benin | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Cote d'Ivoire | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Cape Verde | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Costa Rica | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Dominica | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Ecuador | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Guatemala | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Guyana | 1 | 2023 | down 66.7% | volatile |
| 136 | Hong Kong | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Croatia | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Iceland | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Madagascar | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | North Macedonia | 1 | 2023 | down 50.0% | volatile |
| 136 | Mauritius | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Nicaragua | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Peru | 1 | 2023 | unchanged | volatile |
| 136 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Slovenia | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Seychelles | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Togo | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Tonga | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Uruguay | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Venezuela | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Samoa | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 136 | Anguilla | 1 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Aruba | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Argentina | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Bahamas | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Barbados | 0 | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 163 | Chile | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Cuba | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Guinea | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Grenada | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Lesotho | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Luxembourg | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Macao | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Monaco | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Malta | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Montenegro | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Papua New Guinea | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Senegal | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Solomon Islands | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | El Salvador | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Eswatini | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
| 163 | Tuvalu | 0 | 2023 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- MDG: World 154,971
- SDG: World 154,971
- UIS: World 154,971
- WB: World 154,968
- UNICEF: World 154,960
- UNICEF: All Unicef Countries 151,956
- WB: Low & Middle Income (july 2025) 151,566
- WB: Ida & Ibrd Total 151,411
- WB: Middle Income (july 2025) 148,403
- MDG: Developing Regions 143,133
- ESCAP: All Countries (unsdcode:98400) 142,913
- AIMS: Asia and the Pacific 125,893
- WB: Early-demographic Dividend 122,790
- SDG: Central and Southern Asia 119,508
- ESCAP: Wb Lower Middle Income Economies (wb_lower_mid) (unsdcode:98438) 114,208
- WB: Lower Middle Income (july 2025) 113,391
- ESCAP: Eco (eco) (unsdcode:98407) 86,371
- ECE: All Countries (unsdcode:98200) 84,541
- UNICEF: Europe and Central Asia 82,843
- WB: Europe & Central Asia 82,843
- WB: Europe & Central Asia (ida & Ibrd) 81,634
- UNICEF: Central and Eastern Europe/commonwealth of Independent States 81,620
- UNICEF: Eastern Europe and Central Asia 81,620
- WB: Ibrd Only 79,531
- GPE: Overall Fy24, All 90 Countries, December 2024 78,617
- ECE: Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (cis) (unsdcode:98202) 77,486
- ESCAP: North and Central Asia (nca) (unsdcode:98417) 76,986
- ECE: Cis (cwg) (unsdcode:98201) 76,168
- GPE: Region 3 75,106
- GPE: Lower Middle Income Wb Fy24, December 2024 74,757
- UNICEF: Europe and Central Asia Programme Countries 73,310
- WB: Europe & Central Asia (excluding High Income) 73,294
- WB: Global Partnership for Education (july 2019) 73,055
- WB: Ida Total 71,880
- SDG: Landlocked Developing Countries 69,971
- ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) 69,880
- ESCAP: Lldc (lldc_e) (unsdcode:98412) 69,694
- UIS: Central Asia 69,578
- MDG: Caucasus and Central Asia 68,676
- WB: Ida Blend 65,021
About this data
February 2026 Data Release