World’s future lies in the Asian Continent.

Forecast Higher Education-Asia (2035)

There will be a 423% rise in number of students in higher education by 2035 (99.4 million in 2000 to 414.2 million in 2030 to 520 million in 2035)

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Indonesia

Vietnam

Malaysia Philippines

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report 2012

•ASEAN GDP is $ 1.8 trillion and expected to be 10 trillion by 2030.

•ASEAN GDP will exceed Japan GDP by 2028

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Brunei Darussalam

Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

Comparative Chart ASEAN Countries

Rank Countries Population

(millions)

GDP

Growth

Rate

(%)

GDP( millions of

dollars)

Agriculture Industries Services

% millions

of dollars

% millions of

dollars

% millions of

dollars

ASEAN 615.60 100.0 5.4 2,305,542 100.0

1 Indonesia 244.47 39.7 6.2 878,198 38.1 14.3 127,964 46.9 419,687 38.8 347,203

2 Thailand 64.38 10.5 6.4 365,564 15.9 14.3 45,971 34 117,521 52.7 182,157

3 Malaysia 29.46 4.8 5.6 303,527 13.2 9.1 37,920 41.6 173,347 49.3 205,433

4 Singapore 5.41 0.9 1.3 276,520 12.0 0.0 0 26.8 74,108 73.2 202,413

5 Philippines 95.80 15.6 6.6 250,436 10.9 11.8 29,551 31.1 77,885 57.1 142,999

6 Vietnam 90.39 14.7 5.0 138,071 6.0 21.6 29,823 40.8 56,333 37.6 51,915

7 Myanmar 63.67 10.3 6.3 53,140 2.3 43 22,850 20.5 10,894 36.3 19,290

8 Brunei 0.40 0.1 1.3 16,628 0.7 0.6 100 71.7 11,922 27.7 4,606

9 Cambodia 15.25 2.5 6.5 14,241 0.6 33.4 4,756 21.4 3,048 45.7 6,508

10 Laos 6.38 1.0 8.3 9,217 0.4 26.0 2,396 34.0 3,134 40.0 3,687

China 1,354.04 7.8 8,227,037 10.1 830,931 45.3 3,726,849 44.6 3,669,260

India 1223.00 4.0 5,505,437 12.6 693,685 27.7 1,525,006 59.7 3,286,745

International Monetary Fund 2012

ASEAN in Higher Education

Source: Molly Lee and Stephen Healy, "Higher Education in South‐East Asia: An Overview", Higher Education in South‐East Asia, UNESCO, 2010 ,UNSESCO Institute for Statistics, retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR/countries?page=2 1 Data are for 2008, 2 Data are 2009, 3 data are for 2011