Figure 1: Percentage of 20- to 24-Year-0ld Population in Universities

NOTES: The earliest data available for China are for 1982. Data for Indonesia and Malaysia are for 1989.
SOURCES: National Science Foundation, Science Resources Studies Divsion, Human Resources for Science and Technology: The Asian Regions, by Jean Johnson, NSF 93-303 ( Washington, DC: 1993), table A-2; and Science & Technology Indicators of Indonesia 1993, 1st edition (Republic of Indonesia Science and technology for Industrial Development: 1993).