Uninsured percentage by age group U.S. 1997-2021

In 2021, 13.5 percent of people aged 18 to 64 in the United States didn't have health insurance, up from a historical low of 12.4 percent in 2016. This statistic contains data on the percentage of U.S. Americans without health insurance coverage from 1997 to 2021, by age.

Share of people without health insurance in the United States from 1997 to 2021, by age

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Release date

May 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

1997 to 2021

Supplementary notes

People were defined as uninsured if they did not have any private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), state-sponsored or other government-sponsored health plan, or military plan. People also were defined as uninsured if they had only Indian Health Service coverage or had only a private plan that paid for one type of service, such as accidents or dental care.
This statistic was assembled using previous releases from the same source.

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