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Highway Statistics 2007

Distribution of Licensed Drivers - 2007 by Sex and Percentage in Each Age Group and Relation to Population

December 2008
Table DL-20

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AGE	MALE DRIVERS			FEMALE DRIVERS			TOTAL DRIVERS
AGE	NUMBER	PERCENT OF TOTAL DRIVERS	DRIVERS AS PERCENT OF AGE GROUP 1/	NUMBER	PERCENT OF TOTAL DRIVERS	DRIVERS AS PERCENT OF AGE GROUP 1/	NUMBER	PERCENT OF TOTAL DRIVERS	DRIVERS AS PERCENT OF AGE GROUP 1/
UNDER 16	127,069	0.1	5.8	124,493	0.1	6.0	251,562	0.1	5.9
16	682,021	0.7	30.7	670,152	0.6	31.7	1,352,173	0.7	31.2
17	1,149,836	1.1	50.8	1,107,814	1.1	51.5	2,257,650	1.1	51.1
18	1,479,844	1.4	67.8	1,393,879	1.3	67.2	2,873,723	1.4	67.5
19	1,638,371	1.6	76.0	1,546,695	1.5	75.6	3,185,066	1.5	75.8
(19 AND UNDER)	5,077,141	5.0	46.1	4,843,033	4.7	46.3	9,920,174	4.8	46.2
20	1,681,877	1.6	78.5	1,624,301	1.6	80.1	3,306,178	1.6	79.3
21	1,712,165	1.7	79.1	1,677,300	1.6	82.2	3,389,465	1.6	80.6
22	1,739,707	1.7	79.6	1,715,395	1.7	83.6	3,455,102	1.7	81.5
23	1,743,141	1.7	80.8	1,725,506	1.7	85.7	3,468,647	1.7	83.1
24	1,792,224	1.7	81.4	1,777,980	1.7	86.9	3,570,204	1.7	84.0
(20-24)	8,669,114	8.5	79.9	8,520,482	8.3	83.7	17,189,596	8.4	81.7
25-29	9,072,595	8.9	84.2	9,077,275	8.8	88.3	18,149,870	8.8	86.2
30-34	8,852,063	8.6	89.4	8,766,584	8.5	91.1	17,618,647	8.6	90.2
35-39	9,762,966	9.5	91.6	9,635,291	9.3	91.6	19,398,257	9.4	91.6
40-44	10,117,084	9.9	92.3	10,041,634	9.7	91.1	20,158,718	9.8	91.7
45-49	10,583,203	10.3	93.6	10,641,856	10.3	92.1	21,225,059	10.3	92.8
50-54	9,869,590	9.6	95.9	9,994,330	9.7	93.2	19,863,920	9.7	94.5
55-59	8,581,110	8.4	97.0	8,723,673	8.4	92.9	17,304,783	8.4	94.9
60-64	6,891,032	6.7	99.5	6,976,462	6.8	92.4	13,867,494	6.7	95.8
65-69	4,981,745	4.9	99.3	5,095,436	4.9	88.9	10,077,181	4.9	93.7
70-74	3,733,751	3.6	96.5	3,877,392	3.8	81.9	7,611,143	3.7	88.5
75-79	2,933,321	2.9	94.4	3,187,834	3.1	75.6	6,121,155	3.0	83.6
80-84	1,999,765	2.0	90.7	2,305,836	2.2	66.0	4,305,601	2.1	75.6
85 AND OVER	1,340,456	1.3	75.4	1,589,791	1.5	42.6	2,930,247	1.4	53.2
TOTAL	102,464,936	100.0	87.2	103,276,909	100.0	83.8	205,741,845	100.0	85.5

1/ These percentages are computed using population estimates of the Bureau of the Census. Under-16 age group is compared to 14 and 15-year-old population estimates; the other age brackets coincide with those from the Bureau of the Census.