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by jermaustin1 3187 days ago
I never said a single factor fell into the 400k figure.

I'm also highly skeptical of the figure itself, as the total number of enrolled 6-year-olds is only 675k (97% of population) in 2012 (the last year the number was available), and for the years prior, it was pretty stable (+/- 50k). [1]

Being off by an order less than that makes some sense, but being off by 60% in a pretty stable country seems completely improbable.

[1]: http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=RPOP#