International Students as at 1 July 2006
This report briefly summarises the International Student results from the 1 July 2006 school roll returns. Other reports can be found on the International Students index page.
Foreign Fee-paying Students
At July 2006, there were 9,645 foreign fee-paying students in New Zealand schools. The number of foreign fee-paying students has decreased each year since 2003. Between 2005 and 2006, the number of foreign fee-paying students decreased by approximately 14.6 per cent (1,654 students).
Foreign fee-paying students now comprise 1.3 per cent of the New Zealand school population, compared with 1.9 per cent and 1.5 per cent in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
At July 2006 there were 2,455 foreign fee-paying students in Years 1-8. This was a 14.3 per cent (409) decrease since July 2005. At July 2006 there were 7,190 foreign fee-paying students in Years 9-15, which was a 14.8 per cent (1,245) decrease since July 2005.
About half (49.7 per cent) of foreign fee-paying students were attending schools in the Auckland region in July 2006. There were 18.2 per cent in Canterbury , 7.0 per cent in Waikato and 6.3 per cent in Wellington .
88.9 per cent of foreign fee-paying students come from Asia . By far the largest group comes from South Korea with 46.7 per cent of total foreign fee-paying students, followed by Japan with 14.3 per cent and China with 12.0 per cent.
The number of foreign fee-paying students enrolling from China showed a significant decrease of 34.3 per cent between July 2005 and July 2006. Among the other high contributors, South Korea and Japan have decreased in the last year by 11.4 per cent and 13.2 per cent respectively.
Table 1: Foreign Fee-Paying (FFP) Students in Top Ten Countries at 1 July 2004-2006
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2004
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2005
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2006
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| Country | Number of FFP | % of total | Country | Number of FFP | % of total | Country | Number of FFP | % of total | |
| 1 | South Korea |
6,519
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45.0%
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South Korea |
5,080
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45.0%
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South Korea |
4,503
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46.7%
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| 2 | China |
3,313
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22.9%
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China |
1,756
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15.5%
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Japan |
1,384
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14.3%
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| 3 | Japan |
1,530
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10.6%
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Japan |
1,594
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14.1%
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China |
1,153
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12.0%
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| 4 | Thailand |
911
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6.3%
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Thailand |
770
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6.8%
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Thailand |
614
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6.4%
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| 5 | Hong Kong |
357
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2.5%
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Germany |
416
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3.7%
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Germany |
446
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4.6%
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| 6 | Taiwan |
330
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2.3%
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Taiwan |
333
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2.9%
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Taiwan |
273
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2.8%
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| 7 | Germany |
308
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2.1%
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Hong Kong |
288
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2.5%
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Hong Kong |
255
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2.6%
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| 8 | Vietnam |
192
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1.3%
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Vietnam |
165
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1.5%
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Vietnam |
138
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1.4%
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| 9 | Brazil |
162
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1.1%
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Malaysia |
119
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1.1%
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Brazil |
99
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1.0%
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| 10 | Malaysia |
130
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0.9%
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Brazil |
116
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1.0%
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Fiji |
95
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1.0%
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Foreign fee-paying students from Europe , which make up 6.4 per cent of overall enrolments by foreign fee-paying students, increased by 9.4 per cent in 2006. Student enrolments from the Pacific Region increased after having fallen in 2005. They now make up 2.2 per cent (216) of foreign fee-paying enrolments.
While Asian countries dominate foreign fee-paying enrolments, Brazil and Germany continue to appear in the top ten countries. Despite the trend of declining foreign fee-paying enrolments, Germany has had increasing numbers of foreign fee-paying students, from 308 in 2004 to 446 in 2006. Enrolments from Germany now make up 4.6 per cent of foreign fee-paying enrolments.
Related Pages on Education Counts
Other reports can be found on the International Students statistics index page.
The July School Roll Return data collection page provides links to data, publications and indicators based on that collection.