Statistics on Percent of Americans Populated with Tattoos

When it comes to favorite American past-times the world thinks of Baseball, Apple Pie and Tattoos?  That's right... tattoos are topping the list of American pop culture and if you don't believe it take a look at the following research statistics:

Thirty- six percent of adults ages 18-25 years old have one or more tattoos
Content source: The Pew Research Center, January 2007 

Over Forty-five million Americans have one or more tattoos
Content source: The U.S. Food And Drug Administration, April 2006

Over twenty-four percent of the U.S. population has a tattoo

Seventeen percent of all Americans with tattoos have considered tattoo removal to remove an unwanted design.

Five percent of all Americans with tattoos have a cover up tattoo of a different design covering an unwanted one.

Content source: The Journal of the American Academy
of Dermatology, March 2005