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A total of 1, 880, 906 Scouts had earned Eagle Scout by the end of 2008 ; out of 83, 486, 083 Scouts since 1911 ; this was about 2 percent of the Boy Scouting membership.

In 2008, 52, 025 Eagle Scout awards were presented, about 5. 7 percent of the 2008 membership.

There are four known Nobel Prize laureates who are Eagle Scouts: Dudley R. Herschbach, Peter Agre, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Frederick Reines.