The data below is in a format known as tab-delimited values. You can open this file with any spreadsheet application and the data will be distributed into the appropriate rows and columns. 

	1986	1996	2006
Afghanistan		210	2145
Bangladesh	63	1212	1437
Cambodia		3675	5856
China	4944	19521	78117
Hong Kong 	1878	11760	7686
India	6570	12807	43341
Indonesia		2715	4614
Japan	1443	6501	9570
Korea		12183	28806
Malaysia	3483	11889	14547
Pakistan	288	837	2211
Philippines	1263	7005	15285
Singapore	2352	3477	4857
Sri Lanka	1053	4020	7257
Taiwan		10932	10764
Thailand		3348	6159
Vietnam	2535	3462	4878

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