Share of children meeting Physical Education guidelines across Ireland 2018
In the Republic of Ireland (ROI), the Department of Education and Skills currently recommend that primary school pupils receive 60 minutes, and post-primary pupils receive 120 minutes of Physical Education per week; in Northern Ireland it is 120 minutes per week for both primary and post primary. This statistic presents the share of primary school children receiving 30 minutes or less of Physical Education per week and the share of post primary school children meeting the Physical Education guidelines of at least 120 minutes of Physical Education per week. The share of post primary school children meeting the Physical Education guidelines in Northern Ireland is significantly greater than in the ROI, at 40 percent and 23 percent respectively.
