Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2018, 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	124 948	8 691	5	.	133 644	74.1	.
	Swedish	1 587	6 689	25 648	.	33 924	18.8	.
	Finnish	9 365	607	7	.	9 979	5.5	.
	French	2 012	2 602	9	.	4 623	2.6	.
	German	1 705	5 790	9	.	7 504	4.2	.
	Russian	631	654	0	.	1 285	0.7	.
	Spanish	491	3 252	0	.	3 743	2.1	.
	Italian	0	0	0	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	3	111	0	.	114	0.1	.
	Other	235	71	8	.	314	0.2	.
Grades 7-9	English	80 798	6 646	120	40	87 604	.	99.6
	Swedish	901	6 527	74 100	0	81 528	.	92.7
	Finnish	4 445	682	114	1	5 242	.	6.0
	French	1 010	2 295	116	2 641	6 062	.	6.9
	German	919	4 258	136	5 257	10 570	.	12.0
	Russian	277	899	0	980	2 156	.	2.5
	Spanish	119	745	0	2 571	3 435	.	3.9
	Italian	0	0	0	47	47	.	0.1
	Sami	1	35	0	2	38	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	0	282	282	.	0.3
	Other	90	10	10	21	131	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 23.5.2019

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2018, Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2018, girls . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.12.2024].
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