The number of private kindergartens also is increasing, but more slowly. Currently, there are 425 of them with 13,917 children attending. The total number of kindergartens in the Czech Republic is 5,349, with 360,490 children. The share of private kindergartens this year was about 8 percent and fewer than 4 percent of children attended them. In 2015 private kindergartens were 6.4 percent of all kindergartens, and 3 percent of children attended them.