The bar chart demonstrates the class sizes on average in primary and lower secondary schools. In comparison with the world average in 2009, there are given features of 6 countries.
Overall, South Korea had the highest class size among other countries in primary as well as lower secondary schools, while Iceland had the lowest class size in both types of schools. Denmark and Mexico experienced the same average number of students per class in primary schools, also, the average class size in lower secondary schools in Japan and Mexico showed the same value. In Japan, the average size of classes in lower secondary schools was slightly greater than in primary schools. However, the world average class size illustrates that the number of students in primary schools was higher.
Having more than 30 students in classrooms for both school types, South Korea was the leading figure in this year, even though the average number of students in the world was roughly 26 for primary schools and 26 for lower secondary schools. Conversely, Iceland showed the lowest class sizes around the world in 2006, which was 15 for primary school learners and 16 for lower secondary school children.
Similarly, Japan also had very crowded classes consisting of approximately 26 children aged between 5 and 10, and roughly 31 children aged between 13 and 16, which was the same as in Mexico’s lower secondary schools. Another similar figure can be seen between Denmark and Mexico in primary schools, which consisted of roughly 20 students, as did the UK’s lower secondary schools.