00:01The number of pupils in primary schools remains stable across the European Union.
00:06In 2024 there were 23.2 million primary school children,
00:12a figure virtually unchanged from the previous year according to Eurostat.
00:17But the underlying trend has shifted over the past decade.
00:21Today there are fewer students per teacher than in 2014.
00:26France remains by far the country with the most primary school children, 4.1 million in 2024.
00:32It is followed by Germany, Spain and Italy.
00:36At the other end of the table, Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta bring up the rare.
00:41These figures depend both on the size of each country and on the age at which children start primary school,
00:48which varies from one member state to another.
00:51Compared with last year, overall primary enrollment in the EU fell by 0.2%.
00:58The picture looks different over a longer period.
01:01Since 2014, pupil numbers have grown by 2.9%, although the trend is highly uneven across countries.
01:0915 member states gained pupils over those 10 years and 11 lost them.
01:14The student-teacher ratio also shows change.
01:17In 2024, the EU average was 13.3 pupils per primary teacher, compared with 14.2 a decade earlier.
01:27Greece and Luxembourg are the only countries below 10.
01:31Finally, teaching remains an overwhelmingly female profession.
01:3585.6% of primary teachers in the EU are women, compared with 14.4% men.
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