Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2013, girls

		Compulsory language A1	Optional language A2	Compulsory language B1	Elective language B2	Girls total	Share of girls in grades 1-6 %	Share of girls in grades 7-9 %
Grades	Studied language
Grades 1-6	English	106 744	7 169	.	.	113 913	66.4	.
	Swedish	1 635	7 166	.	.	8 801	5.1	.
	Finnish	6 920	415	.	.	7 335	4.3	.
	French	1 579	2 794	.	.	4 373	2.5	.
	German	1 633	5 563	.	.	7 196	4.2	.
	Russian	591	1 033	.	.	1 624	0.9	.
	Spanish	176	642	.	.	818	0.5	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	1	128	.	.	129	0.1	.
	Other	160	80	.	.	240	0.1	.
Grades 7-9	English	78 562	6 622	100	56	85 340	.	99.5
	Swedish	847	6 327	72 241	2	79 417	.	92.6
	Finnish	4 452	564	80	5	5 101	.	5.9
	French	711	2 257	98	3 689	6 755	.	7.9
	German	898	4 011	218	4 887	10 014	.	11.7
	Russian	305	485	.	1 795	2 585	.	3.0
	Spanish	8	379	.	1 895	2 282	.	2.7
	Italian	0	0	.	113	113	.	0.1
	Sami	0	29	.	4	33	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	252	252	.	0.3
	Other	29	32	.	11	72	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 23.5.2014

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2013, Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2013, girls . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 19.4.2024].
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