The following shows the distribution of primary and secondary students in OECD countries by the type of schools they attended in 1999.
Country | Public | Government- dependent private | Independent private |
| Australia | 74.8% | 25.2% | -% |
| Austria | 93.0 | 7.0 | - |
| Belgium | 41.7 | 58.3 | - |
| Canada | 94.8 | 2.0 | 3.2 |
| Czech Republic | 96.2 | 3.8 | - |
| Denmark | 88.7 | 11.3 | - |
| Finland | 96.2 | 3.8 | - |
| France | 79.2 | 16.8 | 4.0 |
| Germany | 94.9 | 5.1 | - |
| Greece | 94.1 | - | 5.9 |
| Hungary | 94.2 | 5.8 | - |
| Iceland | 97.3 | 2.7 | - |
| Ireland | 99.3 | - | 0.7 |
| Italy | 93.7 | 0.8 | 5.5 |
| Japan | 89.1 | - | 9.9 |
| South Korea | 78.3 | 21.0 | 0.7 |
| Luxembourg | 87.7 | 5.9 | 6.4 |
| Mexico | 90.0 | - | 10.0 |
| Netherlands | 23.3 | 76.3 | 0.5 |
| New Zealand | 93.7 | 1.4 | 4.9 |
| Norway | 96.0 | 4.0 | - |
| Poland | 97.7 | 2.3 | 0.1 |
| Portugal | 89.4 | - | 10.6 |
| Slovak Republic | 95.1 | 4.9 | - |
| Spain | 69.8 | 24.5 | 5.7 |
| Sweden | 97.7 | 2.3 | - |
| Switzerland | 94.4 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
| Turkey | 98.2 | - | 1.8 |
| United Kingdom | 65.1 | 30.7 | 4.2 |
| United States | 89.3 | - | 10.7 |
NOTES: Blank spaces denotes such factors as unavailable data, disaggregated data, too few schools to count, or the absence of a specific type of school in a given country. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. | |||
