Table

Primary and lower secondary schools and pupils by ownership. Absolute figures and change in per cent
	2017	Per cent change	Per cent change
	2017	2016 - 2017	2007 - 2017
Primary and lower secondary schools, total	2 848	-0.3	-10.5
Private schools	244	2.5	50.6
Public schools	2 604	-0.3	-14.0

Pupils, total	633 029	0.6	2.3
Pupils in private schools	23 817	4.8	53.8
Pupils in public schools	609 212	0.4	1.0