Majority of European students learn English in school; some in U.S study Spanish % ofall primary and secondary students in Europe who studied % ofall U.S. primary and secondary students who
Across Europe, 91% of students in primary and secondary school were studying English in 2017 – more than all other foreign languages learned combined by a large margin, according to data from Eurostat, the statistics arm of the European Commission. The next-most studied languages in European schools are French, German and Spanish, each garnering no more than 15% of students participating in 2017. Russian, studied in a formal classroom by 2% of Europeans, is the only other foreign language that more than 1% of European students learn.
Majority of European students learn  | English in school; some in U.S study  | Spanish  | % ofall primary and secondary students in Europe who  | studied  | in 2017  | English  | 91%  | French  | 15  | German  | 11  | Spanish  | 9  | Russian  | 2  | % ofall U.S. primary and secondary students who  | studied  | in 2015  | Spanish  | 14%  | French  | 2  | German  | 1  | Note: Data not available for the UK, Ireland or Serbia. Data shown  | only for languages with at least 1% student enrollment.  | Source: Europe data from Eurostat, accessed Feb. 12, 2020 U.S  | data from "The National K- 12 Foreign Language Enrollment Survey  | Report, American Councils for International Education, June 2017  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 