Percentage of College Graduates in Total Population

OECD via Laura Waters:

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has just released data regarding the "tertiary education graduation rates" based on the "percentage of graduates to the population at the typical age of graduation."

The percentages run from 2000 - 2007. So, for example, in the Czech Republic the percentage of high school graduates as part of the general population was only 13.8% in 2000 but then soared to 34.9% in 2007.

The United States was relatively flat: 34.4% in 2000 with a slight increase to 36.5% by 2007. For comparison's sake, hallowed Finland moved from 40.8% to 48.5% and Japan started at 29.4% and moved to 38.8%. Among the 25 nations included in the analysis, in 2007 15 countries achieved higher percentages than the U.S. and 9 had percentages below. Outliers were Iceland, with a 63.1% graduation rate in 2007 and Turkey with 15.2% in 2006.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 9, 2012 1:30 AM
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