Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2017, 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	119 848	8 411	26	.	128 285	71.4	.
	Swedish	1 753	6 762	24 619	.	33 134	18.5	.
	Finnish	8 901	617	1	.	9 519	5.3	.
	French	1 785	2 759	13	.	4 557	2.5	.
	German	1 740	5 920	48	.	7 708	4.3	.
	Russian	628	700	.	.	1 328	0.7	.
	Spanish	397	2 294	.	.	2 691	1.5	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	3	136	.	.	139	0.1	.
	Other	221	55	0	.	276	0.2	.
Grades 7-9	English	79 340	6 755	99	39	86 233	.	99.6
	Swedish	862	6 801	72 633	5	80 301	.	92.8
	Finnish	4 444	600	110	1	5 155	.	6.0
	French	962	2 330	102	3 230	6 624	.	7.7
	German	918	4 169	130	5 618	10 835	.	12.5
	Russian	303	1 038	.	1 096	2 437	.	2.8
	Spanish	92	649	.	2 332	3 073	.	3.6
	Italian	0	0	.	79	79	.	0.1
	Sami	1	30	.	1	32	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	238	238	.	0.3
	Other	90	6	4	24	124	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 24.5.2017

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2017, Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2017, girls . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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