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Additional countries with reasonably high scores include Greece, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Slovenia, Canada, Ireland, the United States, Lithuania, and Latvia. Conversely, populations in areas with limited access to quality schooling scored much lower overall.
22 sie 2024 · In 2021, about 37.7 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from college or another higher education institution, a slight decline from 37.9 the previous year ...
23 lip 2024 · Annual tables on educational attainment from the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic supplement (ASEC).
16 lut 2023 · In 2022, the highest level of education of the population age 25 and older in the United States ranged from less than high school to advanced degrees beyond a bachelor’s degree. 9% had less than a high school diploma or equivalent. 28% had high school as their highest level of school completed.
But formal education is a very recent phenomenon. In the chart, we see the share of the adult population – those older than 15 – that has received some basic education and those who haven’t. In the early 1800s, fewer than 1 in 5 adults had some basic education.
24 lut 2022 · In 2021, 29.4% of men age 25 and older had completed a high school diploma or GED as their highest level of educational attainment, compared with 26.5% of women age 25 and older. In 2021, of adults age 25 and older who had completed a bachelor’s degree or more, 53.1% were women and 46.9% were men.
17 lip 2023 · Datasets on estimated school enrollment ratios from 1820 to 2010 and estimated educational attainment for the total, female, and male populations from 1870 to 2010. The estimates are available in five-year intervals for 111 countries.
