What is the percentage of high school/secondary school graduates in
the world? in america?

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 07 Jun 2006 12:30 PDT

The education system of most countries is different from the U.S.
system, e.g. there are no high schools and the like. What kind of data
would you accept instead?

Scriptor

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Clarification of Question by nakedfarfromhome-ga on 08 Jun 2006 13:21 PDT

what then is the percentage in the us?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the high school graduation rate is 85%. 


Excerpt:

?There are nearly 73-million students at all levels of schooling
across the U.S., both public and private -- some 39- million from
kindergarten through eighth grade, about 16.5- million in high school
and another 17.5-million in college. High school graduation rates have
grown steadily through the years. In 1990, about 75 percent of the
adult population had a high school diploma. Now, that figure is more
than 85 percent.?

U.S. Census Bureau : 6/6/2006 
http://www.census.gov .
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=66982


According to the U.S. Census Bureau, high school graduation rates for
women continued to exceed those of men, 85.4 percent and 84.8 percent,
respectively.

U.S. Census Bureau 
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/education/004214.html



See Educational Attainment in the United States
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html
Detailed Tables
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps2004.html


Education at a Glance 2005									
Indicator A1: Educational attainment of the adult population
Download Excel file here:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/22/35/35282639.xls

See Table A1.2a.
Population that has attained at least upper secondary education (2003)
Percentage, by age group  for the following countries:
Australia 
Austria
Belgium
Canada 
Czech Republic 
Denmark 
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary 
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Japan 
Korea
Luxembourg 
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand 
Norway
Poland
Portugal 
Slovak Republic
Spain
Sweden 
Switzerland 
Turkey 
United Kingdom
United States 
Argentina 
Brazil 
Chile
Indonesia
Israel
Jordan
Malaysia 
Paraguay 
Peru 
Philippines
Russian Federation
Thailand
Uruguay 
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/22/35/35282639.xls


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"U.S. High School Graduation Rates"

I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards, 
Bobbie7