QuickStats: Percentage of Uninsured Adults Aged 18−64 Years, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Selected Asian Subgroups — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019−2020

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During 2019–2020, the percentage of U.S. adults aged 18–64 years who were uninsured was 14.4%.
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Authors: Michael E. Martinez, MPH, MHSA; Amy E. Cha, PhD; and Emily P. Terlizzi, MPH

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The figure is a bar chart illustrating the percentage of uninsured adults aged 18–64 years, by race, Hispanic origin, and Asian subgroup, according to the National Health Interview Survey during 2019–2020.
Percentage of Uninsured Adults Aged 18−64 Years, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Selected Asian§ Subgroups, 2019−2020

During 2019–2020, the percentage of U.S. adults aged 18–64 years who were uninsured was 14.4%.

Among all race and Hispanic origin groups, non-Hispanic Asian adults (7.8%) were the least likely to be uninsured followed by non-Hispanic White (9.7%), non-Hispanic Black (14.6%), and Hispanic adults (30.4%).

Among the non-Hispanic Asian subgroups shown, adults of Korean (14.3%) origin were more likely to be uninsured than adults of Asian Indian (4.8%) and Chinese (6.5%) origin.

Other observed differences were not statistically significant.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7128a5.htm

Source: National Health Interview Survey, 2019 and 2020 data. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.

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