Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 29, Chart 1

Indicator 29. Dropouts

Percent of persons 16 to 24 years old who are dropouts, by sex and race/ethnicity: October 1967 to October 1994

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, unpublished tabulations.

The proportion of all 16- to 24-year-olds who were dropouts fell between 1980 and 1994. The dropout rate for blacks fell more rapidly, from 19 percent in 1980 to 13 percent in 1994. The Hispanic dropout rate has not declined and remains by far the highest at 30 percent.