Home schooling is one of the most popular choices and the fastest growing tendency in education around the world. At the beginning of the new millennium, there were anywhere from 1,700,000 to 2,100,000 home schoolers in the United States only. Of these, about a quarter of a million to 340,000 of these home schoolers are in high school grades.
As for the rest of the world home schooling comes before structured public school education in many developing countries and it is in these countries that counting the number of home schoolers is probably the most difficult. However in more developed countries like Japan, Australia, the UK, Germany, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, France it is easier to estimate the amount of home schoolers correctly. Each year the numbers of home schoolers increase as this way of education becomes more and more popular.
There are about 50,000 to 95,000 home schoolers in Canada at the turn of this last century. In England and Wales there were approximately from 13,000 to 50,000 home schoolers during the same time period. In Australia nearly between 35,000 and 55,000 children were home schooled. In Germany, the number of home schoolers was about 500 or 600. These statistics do not include the number of Americans abroad who home school while serving in the military, as missionaries or as government employees for the U.S. State Department.
Each year, home schooling grows in the United States. The estimated growth rate is about from 7 percent to 15 percent every year.
Home schooling is now legal in two cities in Taiwan. Home school growth in Taiwan is supposed to be slow at first, because in every family both parents have to work full-time outside the home. There is already a growing national network of home schoolers in Taiwan that helps all interested parents to start home schooling and continue it successfully.
Education otherwise and home schooling is rapidly increasing in Norway; 200 children are home schooled.
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