Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2014, 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	107 715	7 288	.	.	115 003	66.4	.
	Swedish	1 641	7 392	.	.	9 033	5.2	.
	Finnish	7 091	427	.	.	7 518	4.3	.
	French	1 701	2 744	.	.	4 445	2.6	.
	German	1 729	5 375	.	.	7 104	4.1	.
	Russian	632	1 372	.	.	2 004	1.2	.
	Spanish	224	693	.	.	917	0.5	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	1	119	.	.	120	0.1	.
	Other	234	41	.	.	275	0.2	.
Grades 7-9	English	78 601	6 536	80	35	85 252	.	99.5
	Swedish	1 062	6 297	71 727	143	79 229	.	92.5
	Finnish	4 275	740	72	3	5 090	.	5.9
	French	843	2 402	102	3 772	7 119	.	8.3
	German	903	4 259	251	4 610	10 023	.	11.7
	Russian	305	597	.	2 351	3 253	.	3.8
	Spanish	20	512	.	1 785	2 317	.	2.7
	Italian	0	0	.	136	136	.	0.2
	Sami	0	30	.	1	31	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	251	251	.	0.3
	Other	65	2	.	22	89	.	0.1

Source: Education. Statistics Finland

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Updated 22.5.2015

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Subject choices of students [e-publication].
ISSN=1799-1056. Subject choices of comprehensive school pupils 2014, Appendix table 2. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2014, girls . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 22.11.2024].
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