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Appendix table 3. Comprehensive school drop-outs in academic years 1999/2000 to 2018/2019

Academic year	Those having dropped out completely from compulsory education 1)	Those having left comprehensive school without a leaving certificate 2)		Number of 9th graders in spring term
		Total	In comparison with the number of 9th graders at the end of spring term, %
1999/2000	90	193	0,29	66 821
2000/2001	69	210	0,33	64 512
2001/2002	63	191	0,31	62 095
2002/2003	79	161	0,26	61 419
2003/2004	67	178	0,28	64 456
2004/2005	70	218	0,34	64 350
2005/2006	60	178	0,27	66 473
2006/2007	55	152	0,23	66 230
2007/2008	47	115	0,17	67 388
2008/2009	39	150	0,23	65 687
2009/2010	41	152	0,23	65 560
		180	0,28	64 125
2010/2011	95
2011/2012	86	212	0,34	61 778
2012/2013	85	202	0,33	60 323
2013/2014	78	269	0,46	58 554
2014/2015	71	301	0,51	58 919
2015/2016	94	315	0,54	58 707
2016/2017	73	314	0,54	58 376
2017/2018	74	436	0,75	58 151
2018/2019	91	352	0,59	59 264

1) Such persons of compulsory education age who did not take part at all in comprehensive school education during the academic year and starting from the academic year 2010/2011 during the spring term are regarded as having dropped out completely from compulsory education. Data starting from the academic year 2010/2011 are not fully comparable with earlier years. There may be such persons in each grade of school.
2) Those having left comprehensive school without a leaving certificate are those past the age of compulsory education who did not complete the whole comprehensive school syllabus during their compulsory education.

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 12.3.2020