Statistics Norway

Education statistics. Pupils and students

10   Pupils and students, by type of school and age and in per cent of registered cohort. 1 October 2002
Age at 31 December 2001 Type of school Pupils in per cent of registered cohort
Total1 Primary and lower secondary schools2 Upper secondary schools3 Folk high schools Apprentices Colleges Universities Both sexes Males Females
Total 1 037 334  607 739  182 377 5 713 29 085  131 861 80 559 - - -
                     
 6 62 294 62 294 - - - - - 99.7 99.6 99.8
 7 61 553 61 553 - - - - - 99.4 99.4 99.5
 8 61 356 61 356 - - - - - 99.5 99.4 99.7
 9 61 181 61 181 - - - - - 99.7 99.8 99.6
10 62 173 62 173 - - - - - 99.8 99.9 99.8
11 62 795 62 795 - - - - - 99.6 99.6 99.6
12 62 468 62 468 - - - - - 99.1 99.0 99.1
13 61 029 61 025 4 - - - - 99.6 99.4 99.7
14 59 132 59 107 21 - - 3 1 99.3 99.3 99.3
15 56 503 55 947  556 - - - -  100.2 99.8  100.7
16 51 485 - 51 193  247 43 2 - 93.4 92.9 94.0
17 49 277 - 48 694  375  201 6 1 91.4 91.1 91.7
18 45 547 - 38 131  482 6 724 87  123 85.4 83.7 87.2
19 28 790 - 9 435 3 137 8 877 3 952 3 389 54.0 50.6 57.5
20 26 218 - 5 242  659 4 873 8 842 6 602 48.1 43.8 52.6
21 24 406 - 3 606  249 2 028 11 556 6 967 45.0 39.5 50.7
22 23 009 - 2 631  133 1 205 11 888 7 152 41.9 37.8 46.2
23 20 496 - 1 926 80  848 10 562 7 080 36.9 33.9 40.0
24 17 972 - 1 621 47  628 8 658 7 018 32.2 30.9 33.4
25 14 749 - 1 304 33  521 6 584 6 307 26.7 25.5 27.8
26 12 526 - 1 153 28  417 5 377 5 551 21.6 20.3 22.9
27 10 821 - 1 049 36  384 4 538 4 814 17.8 16.4 19.1
28 9 379 - 1 060 20  257 4 248 3 794 14.5 12.9 16.2
29 7 950 -  936 9  235 3 732 3 038 12.1 10.5 13.7
30 -   86 385 - 13 815  178 1 844 51 826 18 722 - - -
1  Part of the increase in the number of students in higher education is due to the inclusion of about 8 000 students registered at so called ' business courses' at the Norwegian School of Management.
2  Age groups are founded on the pupils' year level. Pupils in separate classes for language minorities and pupils with special educational needs are not included.
3  Including participants in Labour market courses.

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