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Afghanistan: Total outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying abroad, all countries, both sexes

30,380count · 2018+574.7% since 2008

Students who have crossed a national or territorial border for the purpose of education and are now enrolled outside their country of origin. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 1998 to 2018.

19982018

Every year

YearValue (count)Note
201830,380
201729,822
201628,794
201524,426
201419,529
201313,338
20129,685
20119,344
20107,759
20095,439
20084,503
20073,920
20063,374
20052,893
20042,550
20032,488
20022,490
20012,389
20002,416
19992,405
19982,437

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Total outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying abroad, all countries, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-total-outbound-internationally-mobile-tertiary-students-studying-abroa (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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