Educational Attainment

The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.

A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.

The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.

The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.

This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.

An influx of students from low-income families and students of color at U.S. colleges and universities has almost exclusively fueled the growth in the overall number of undergraduates.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans participate in some type of community group or organization, including 11% who say they take part in at least four such groups.

Many Americans support encouraging high-skilled immigration into the United States. But the U.S. trails other economically advanced nations in its share of immigrants with high skills.