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January 2010
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	169,067	0.2	7.9	165,101	0.2	8.1	334,168	0.2	8.0
16	667,339	0.6	30.5	661,172	0.6	31.7	1,328,511	0.6	31.1
17	1,103,962	1.1	49.6	1,068,079	1.0	50.4	2,172,041	1.0	50.0
18	1,490,038	1.4	65.6	1,404,411	1.3	65.2	2,894,449	1.4	65.4
19	1,658,662	1.6	75.7	1,566,104	1.5	75.3	3,224,766	1.5	75.5
(19 AND UNDER)	5,089,068	4.9	46.1	4,864,867	4.6	46.4	9,953,935	4.8	46.3
20	1,698,745	1.6	78.5	1,642,900	1.6	80.1	3,341,645	1.6	79.2
21	1,716,906	1.7	79.8	1,684,153	1.6	82.8	3,401,059	1.6	81.2
22	1,740,680	1.7	80.1	1,708,409	1.6	83.4	3,449,089	1.7	81.7
23	1,784,769	1.7	81.4	1,763,518	1.7	85.7	3,548,287	1.7	83.5
24	1,772,022	1.7	81.9	1,763,502	1.7	87.3	3,535,524	1.7	84.5
(20-24)	8,713,122	8.4	80.3	8,562,482	8.2	83.8	17,275,604	8.3	82.0
25-29	9,186,351	8.9	84.0	9,232,627	8.8	88.8	18,418,978	8.8	86.3
30-34	8,893,874	8.6	89.3	8,858,981	8.5	91.9	17,752,855	8.5	90.6
35-39	9,672,688	9.3	91.5	9,584,412	9.2	91.9	19,257,100	9.2	91.7
40-44	9,926,743	9.6	92.4	9,841,040	9.4	91.4	19,767,783	9.5	91.9
45-49	10,618,976	10.2	93.9	10,668,589	10.2	92.2	21,287,565	10.2	93.0
50-54	10,059,554	9.7	95.5	10,189,189	9.7	93.0	20,248,743	9.7	94.2
55-59	8,735,563	8.4	96.9	8,900,891	8.5	93.0	17,636,454	8.5	94.9
60-64	7,189,906	6.9	99.4	7,293,426	7.0	92.7	14,483,332	7.0	95.9
65-69	5,268,385	5.1	99.3	5,402,615	5.2	89.4	10,671,000	5.1	94.0
70-74	3,842,191	3.7	97.1	4,005,920	3.8	83.2	7,848,111	3.8	89.4
75-79	2,939,926	2.8	94.9	3,190,329	3.0	76.4	6,130,255	2.9	84.3
80-84	2,043,007	2.0	91.2	2,359,328	2.3	67.2	4,402,335	2.1	76.6
85 AND OVER	1,438,808	1.4	77.2	1,747,743	1.7	45.3	3,186,551	1.5	55.7
TOTAL	103,618,162	100.0	87.3	104,702,439	100.0	84.2	208,320,601	100.0	85.8

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.