Immigration - Intelpoint

446 Ghanaian scholars are in the US as of the 2023/24 academic session, making up 9.5% of the total number of African scholars in the US.
In the 2000/01 academic session, Ghana was the 7th leading source of African scholars with only 75 Ghanaian scholars in the US.
Nearly 1 in African scholars in the US is a Ghanaian.
Ghana scholarly population in the US have grown by 497%.

Egypt remained the lead African country with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with 942 recorded in the 2023/2024 academic session.
As of the 2023/2024 academic session, 4,679 international scholars in the United States of America are from Africa.
A total of 931 international scholars in the US as of the same session are from Nigeria.
Africa produced 4.2% of the international scholars in the US for the session under review.

China continued to lead globally with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with almost 21% of the international scholars as of 2023/2024.
China has been the lead country with the highest number of scholars in the US globally in the last 24 years.
India is next after China, with 17,735 scholars in US who hailed from India making up 15.8% of the population.
Only 1% of the scholars in the US are from Nigeria

No candidate scored above 300 until 2015, with just 40 high scorers that year out of over 1.46 million candidates.
2025 marked the highest ever with 17,025 candidates scoring above 300, nearly double the count in 2024 and more than triple 2023.
From 2022 to 2025, above-300 scorers consistently remained over 5,000 each year, showing a steady rise in top scores.
Despite the growth in numbers of JAMB candidates, high scorers still make up less than 1% annually.

In 2023, international students made up 5.9% of total US higher education enrollment.
This is the highest share ever recorded since tracking began in 1948.
The share has grown steadily from 1.1% in 1948 to nearly 6% today.
Peak growth occurred from the late 1970s through the 2010s.
The total enrollment base in 2023 was 18.9 million, down from the 2011 peak of 21.2 million.
International student share remained resilient even as overall enrollment declined post-2010.
The 2020 dip (4.6%) resulted from the COVID disruption, but recovery was swift.

90.7% of approvals came from 10 countries — all in Asia and Africa; the rest of the world got just 9.3%
India: 222,521 approvals (highest)
Nigeria: 149,299 approvals (2nd overall, 1st in Africa)
Zimbabwe: 92,960 approvals (3rd overall, despite smaller population)
India, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe alone account for over 460,000 approvals — more than 62% of the total
Five of the top 10 countries are African
Total approvals (2020–2024): 741,933

Over 36% of candidates earned a Second Class Lower.
One in every 27 candidates achieved a First Class Honours.
More than 16% secured a Second Class Upper.
181 candidates were absent for the exam, roughly 2.5% of the total.
327 candidates earned a Conditional Pass, requiring further requirements for full qualification.

The total number of out-of-school children in primary education in Lesotho rose to 96,388 in 2023, an increase of 40,511 from 2015.
The number of children out of school in 2021 saw a sharp rise to 92,290, up from 69,906 in 2020.
The gender gap remained relatively stable, with more boys than girls out of school each year.
The overall trend shows a steady increase in the total number of children out of school, especially in the past five years.

Key Takeaways:

In 2023, Kiribati spent the largest % of its GDP on education, amounting to 16.39%.
Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu each allocated over 10% of their GDP to education.
Bolivia and the Solomon Islands each directed around 8.3% of their GDP spending towards education.
The top ten countries dedicated approximately 6.6% to 16.4% of their GDP to education.

Key takeaways:

Throughout the decade, Nigeria saw a consistent decline in education funding as a percentage of GDP.
The most substantial allocation occurred in 2012 at 0.55% of GDP.
The lowest allocation was noted in 2022 at 0.35% of GDP.
There was a brief recovery from 2017 to 2018 before the downward trend resumed in 2019.
Over the decade, the overall reduction in education spending relative to GDP was approximately 36.5%.
Nigeria's education spending as a percentage of GDP is significantly lower than the UNESCO recommendation of 4-6% for developing nations.

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