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303. Higher Education Registrations in Foreign Languages

[As of fall (647.1 represents 647,100)]

 
ITEM 1960 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1990 1995 1998
 
    Registrations 1 (1,000) 2 647.1 1,034.9 1,127.4 1,111.5 1,008.9 946.6 933.5 924.8 966.0 1,003.2 1,184.1 1,138.8 1,193.8
Index (1960=100) 100.0 159.9 174.2 171.8 155.9 146.3 144.3 142.9 149.3 155.0 183.0 176.0 184.5
By selected language (1,000):
  Spanish 178.7 310.3 364.9 389.2 364.5 362.2 376.7 379.4 386.2 411.3 533.9 606.3 656.6
  French 228.8 371.6 388.1 359.3 293.1 253.1 246.1 248.4 270.1 275.3 272.5 205.4 199.1
  German 146.1 213.9 216.3 202.6 177.1 152.1 135.4 126.9 128.2 121.0 133.3 96.3 89.0
  Italian 11.1 22.9 30.4 34.2 33.3 33.0 33.3 34.8 38.7 40.9 49.7 43.8 49.3
  Japanese 1.7 3.4 4.3 6.6 8.3 9.6 10.7 11.5 16.1 23.5 45.7 44.7 43.1
  Chinese 1.8 3.4 5.1 6.2 10.0 10.6 9.8 11.4 13.2 16.9 19.5 26.5 28.5
  Latin 2 25.7 39.6 35.0 27.6 24.4 25.2 24.4 25.0 24.2 25.0 28.2 25.9 26.1
  Russian 30.6 33.7 40.7 36.1 36.4 32.5 27.8 24.0 30.4 34.0 44.6 24.7 23.8
  Ancient Greek 2 12.7 19.5 19.3 16.7 20.6 24.4 25.8 22.1 19.4 17.6 16.4 16.3 16.4
  Hebrew 3.8 8.1 10.2 16.6 21.1 22.4 19.4 19.4 18.2 15.6 13.0 13.1 15.8
  American Sign Language (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) 1.6 4.3 11.4
  Portuguese 1.0 3.0 4.0 5.1 4.8 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.4 5.1 6.2 6.5 6.9
  Arabic 0.5 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.7 2.0 3.1 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.5 4.4 5.5


X Not applicable.
1 Includes other foreign languages, not shownseparately.
2 Estimated

Source: Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, New York,NY, ADFL Bulletin, vol. 31, No. 2, and earlier issues(copyright).

http://www.adfl.org/

https://allcountries.org/uscensus/303_higher_education_registrations_in_foreign_languages.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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