Learners of Russian in schools worldwide by region

Over 480 thousand elementary and secondary education students in Eastern European and Balkan countries learned Russian as a foreign language within public educational programs in school year 2017/2018. In Latin America, only 400 students were enrolled in such programs.

Number of school students learning the Russian language within state education programs worldwide in school year 2017/2018, by region (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Learners in thousands
CIS and the Baltics	7,460
Eastern Europe and the Balkans	481.5
Asia	185.5
Western Europe	168.1
Middle East and North Africa	21.5
North America and Oceania	16.4
Sub-Saharan Africa	13.6
Latin America	0.4

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Release date

November 2019

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Region

Worldwide, Russia

Survey time period

2017/2018

Supplementary notes

The figures include only the number of learners of Russian within state education programs of Russian as a foreign language; self-education and private courses are not included.

Elementary, middle, or high schools as well as vocational schools (secondary education) are included.

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