Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2015, 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	109 330	7 515	.	.	116 845	66.6	.
	Swedish	1 543	7 266	.	.	8 809	5.0	.
	Finnish	7 062	468	.	.	7 530	4.3	.
	French	1 773	2 842	.	.	4 615	2.6	.
	German	1 720	5 453	.	.	7 173	4.1	.
	Russian	617	1 268	.	.	1 885	1.1	.
	Spanish	257	821	.	.	1 078	0.6	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	1	122	.	.	123	0.1	.
	Other	216	23	.	.	239	0.1	.
Grades 7-9	English	77 805	6 752	87	23	84 667	.	99.5
	Swedish	834	6 551	71 168	63	78 616	.	92.4
	Finnish	4 460	580	95	0	5 135	.	6.0
	French	899	2 367	92	3 612	6 970	.	8.2
	German	887	4 045	221	4 857	10 010	.	11.8
	Russian	319	636	.	2 038	2 993	.	3.5
	Spanish	38	628	.	1 808	2 474	.	2.9
	Italian	0	0	.	98	98	.	0.1
	Sami	0	39	.	3	42	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	237	237	.	0.3
	Other	65	1	.	28	94	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 24.5.2016

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2015, Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2015, girls . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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