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The number of young people leaving their homelands to study in foreign countries has been on the rise in recent decades. In 2001, there were 2.2 million students overseas; 20 years later, that figure reached 6.39 million. This graph shows which countries had the highest numbers of students abroad in 2021, the latest year for which data is available. What destinations do you think were the most popular for those students?
Country | College Students Abroad
China 1,021,303, India 508,174, Vietnam 137,022, Germany 136,359, Uzbekistan 109,945, France 105,790, United States 102,691, Syria 99,050