Given is the bar chart which compares the average class size of two types of schools in six specific nations, including South Korea, Japan, the UK, Denmark, Mexico and Ireland, with the world average statistcs in 2006.
Overall, it is noticeable that both types of schools in South Korean owned the biggest class size compared to other countries, whereas, Ireland contained the smallest size of course. Specifically, classes in lower secondary school in Mexico generally had more students than that of primary school.
As is shown in the chart, only the figures for South Korea and Japan were significally higher than the world average class size. There were more than 35 students in class in Korean lower secondary school, with just under 35 students in primary school classes. Simiarly, there were approximately 30 students in classes in Japanese lower secondary school, which its primary school classes have just over 25 people. When it comes to the figure for Mexico, the class size in lower secondary school almost doubled that in primary school.
In contrast, class size in primary school was larger than that in lower secondary school in the UK and Denmark, with just a marginal difference between the numbers of students, about 2 students. In addition, both school in Ireland contained under 20 students in one class.