"In 2007, more than 2.8 million students were enrolled in higher education institutions outside their country of origin, a 53 percent increase since 1999, according to a Unesco report released in July. While the United States, Britain and other Western countries continue to draw the most Asian students, the report also showed that Asian students were increasingly attending universities within their own regions. In East Asia and the Pacific, 42 percent of students who left home remained in their region in 2007 compared with 36 percent in 1999, according to the 2009 edition of Unesco’s Global Education Digest." (Quoted from article)