By Service | 14 June, 2020
Largest population in the world.
Stats
ISO: CN
Population: 1393 million
Yearly intake of children: 34.6989 mio.
Yearly intake as % of population: 2.491
Yearly outgoing of children: ??
Children at school: ??
Number of English teachers: ??
Costs for every extra year learning: ??
Schoolbook renewal period: ???
English learnt at school: true
English primary language: false
English learnt as a second language: true
Second language comment:
- English is compulsory.
How many children are learning English
Number of intakes: 34.6989 million
- Daily (34.6989e6/365) = 95065, approx. 100k per day
- Hourly (34.6989e6/365/24) = 3961, rounding = 4000 children start to learn EN every hour.
Time relevant:
- Per minute = 34.6989e6/365/24/60 = 66 children.
- The number of new children per breath (34.6989e6/365/24/60/60*4) = 4.40
Sources
New entrants
- In 2018, the Ministry of Education reported ‘The number of new entrants into compulsory education was 34.6989 million’
- http://en.moe.gov.cn/documents/reports/201910/t20191022_404775.html
- https://multilingual-education.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13616-016-0026-0
English has become a compulsory subject from Primary Three in China since 2003 and is gradually being introduced even earlier into the curriculum in many schools. This highlights the official importance of English in both primary school education and society.