Appendix table 1. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2017, boys

		Compulsory language A1	Optional language A2	Compulsory language B1	Elective language B2	Boys total	Share of boys in grades 1-6 %	Share of boys in grades 7-9 %
Grades	Studied language
Grades 1-6	English	125 693	7 795	34	.	133 522	70.9	.
	Swedish	1 558	5 692	26 400	.	33 650	17.9	.
	Finnish	9 314	586	1	.	9 901	5.3	.
	French	1 181	1 687	10	.	2 878	1.5	.
	German	1 472	5 416	29	.	6 917	3.7	.
	Russian	511	448	.	.	959	0.5	.
	Spanish	300	1 917	.	.	2 217	1.2	.
	Italian	0	0	.	.	0	0.0	.
	Sami	2	101	.	.	103	0.1	.
	Other	178	68	0	.	246	0.1	.
Grades 7-9	English	84 150	6 223	94	43	90 510	.	99.4
	Swedish	671	5 235	78 156	1	84 063	.	92.3
	Finnish	4 600	556	98	1	5 255	.	5.8
	French	666	1 236	65	1 215	3 182	.	3.5
	German	773	3 283	134	3 804	7 994	.	8.8
	Russian	225	657	.	769	1 651	.	1.8
	Spanish	77	455	.	1 157	1 689	.	1.9
	Italian	30	0	.	29	59	.	0.1
	Sami	1	22	.	4	27	.	0.0
	Latin	0	0	.	162	162	.	0.2
	Other	76	8	4	14	102	.	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 1. Language choices of comprehensive school pupils in 2017, boys . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 19.4.2024].
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