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The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%. [1]
State, federal district, or territory HDI (2022) [note 1] [1] Comparable Region [2] 1 Massachusetts: 0.956 Hong Kong New Hampshire: 3 Colorado: 0.952 Denmark, Sweden Washington: 5 Minnesota: 0.951 Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Ireland: 6 Connecticut: 0.950 Germany, Ireland — District of Columbia: 0.947 Australia, Netherlands: 7 Hawaii: 8
Educational attainment in the United States (2018) [5] In 2018, nearly 9/10 (90 percent) of all adults 25 years or older reported they had completed at least high school, or obtained a GED/high school equivalency certificate. Over one in three adults (35 percent) had attained at least a bachelor's degree.
Breaking away from the East Coast, the Rocky Mountain state rounds out the top five of America’s most educated states, ranking second in educational attainment, yet only 35th in quality of ...
The territories of the United States are listed separately (they were not included in Measure of America's report); the territories data is from a different source (based on United Nations Development Programme), which uses a different numbering system.
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Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [ 1 ] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and ...
Source: 1910–2020; 2022 [2][1] The 2020 United States census reported Tennessee's population at 6,910,840, an increase of 564,735 since the 2010 United States census, or 8.90%. [3] Between 2010 and 2019, the state received a natural increase of 124,385 (584,236 births minus 459,851 deaths), and an increase from net migration of 244,537 people ...