What percentage of the population of the US graduates from college? 
How has this number changed in the past few years?

Hello,

The short of your answer is taken from the most current Digest of
Education Statistics, 2001 published by the National Center for
Education Statistics:

1910 ........	2.7%
1920 ........	3.3%
1930 ........	3.9%
April 1940 ..	4.6%
April 1950 ..	6.2%
April 1960 ..	7.7%
March 1970 ..	11.0%
March 1975 ..	13.9%
March 1980 ..	17.0%
March 1982 ..	17.7%
March 1985 ..	19.4%
March 1986 ..	19.4%
March 1987 ..	19.9%
March 1988 ..	20.3%
March 1989 ..	21.1%
March 1990 ..	21.3%
March 1991 ..	21.4%
March 1992 ..	21.4%
March 1993 ..	21.9%
March 1994 ..	22.2%
March 1995 ..	23.0%
March 1996 ..	23.6%
March 1997 ..	23.9%
March 1998 ..	24.4%
March 1999 ..	25.2%
March 2000 ..	25.6%

The long of your answer comes from all of the neat statistics and
breakdowns that they offer in table form as well as detailed analysis.
Please see the link below for an exhaustive compilation of statistics.


Search Strategy:

census education statistics on google:
://www.google.com/search?q=census+education+statistics


Additional Links:

Table 8. Years of school completed by persons age 25 and over and 25
to 29, by race/ethnicity and sex: 1910 to 2000:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/digest2001/tables/dt008.asp

Digest of Education Statistics, 2001:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/digest2001/

List of Tables from Digest of Education Statistics, 2001:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/digest2001/list_tables.asp


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more information, please clarify the question, or if you find this
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skermit-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by prmadona-ga on 29 Oct 2002 22:44 PST

the number of recent college graduates in the US (people within a year
or two out of school)

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Clarification of Answer by skermit-ga on 29 Oct 2002 23:01 PST

The statistics I gave you were age 25-29 which is a couple years out
of graduation. Have you tried the rest of the report that I gave the
link to?

skermit-ga

the answer was exactly what I needed and more!