Health Insurance Coverage
Data are for the U.S.
The latest data are available from the National Health Interview Survey’s Early Release Program
Uninsured
- Number of persons under age 65 uninsured at the time of interview: 32.8 million
- Percent of persons under age 65 uninsured at the time of interview: 12.1%
- Percent of children under age 18 uninsured at the time of interview: 5.1%
- Percent of adults aged 18-64 uninsured at the time of interview: 14.7%
Private insurance
- Percent of persons under age 65 with private insurance at time of interview: 63.7%
- Percent of children under age 18 with private insurance at time of interview: 55.2%
- Percent of adults aged 18-64 with private insurance at time of interview: 66.8%
Public insurance
- Percent of persons under age 65 with public insurance at time of interview: 26.0%
- Percent of children under age 18 with public insurance at time of interview: 41.4%
- Percent of adults aged 18-64 with public insurance at time of interview: 20.4%
More data
- Responses to recent health policy data requests
- Trends in Health Insurance from Health, United States
- Reasons for Being Uninsured in the United States Among Adults Aged 18-64, 2019
- Long-term Trends in Health Insurance: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, United States, 1968–2018pdf icon
- Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018
- Access to Care Among Adults Aged 18-64 With High Deductible Health Plans: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey pdf icon[PDF – 270 KB]
- Problems Paying Medical Bills Among Person Under Age 65: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2011-June 2017 pdf icon[PDF – 214 KB]
- Coverage, Access, and Utilization by Medicaid Expansion Status: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2016 pdf icon[PDF – 818 KB]
- High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment Among Adults Aged 18-64 with Employment-Based Insurance Coverage
- The Association of Marital Status and Offers of Employer-Based Health Insurance Coverage for Employed Women Aged 27–64: United States, 2014–2015
- Health Care Access and Utilization Among Adults Aged 18-64, by Poverty Level: United States, 2013-2015
- Health Care Access and Utilization Among Adults Aged 18–64, by Race and Hispanic Origin: United States, 2013 and 2014
- Health Insurance Continuity and Health Care Access and Utilization, 2014
- Reasons for Emergency Room Use Among U.S. Adults Aged 18-64: National Health Interview Survey, 2013 and 2014 pdf icon[PDF – 348 KB]
- State Variation in Health Care Service Utilization: United States, 2014
- Acceptance of New Patients With Public and Private Insurance by Office-based Physicians: United States, 2013
- Insurance Coverage for Complementary Health Approaches Among Adult Users: United States, 2002 and 2012
- Characteristics of Children in Medicaid Managed Care and Medicaid Fee-for-service, 2003–2005 pdf icon[PDF – 222 KB]
Page last reviewed: March 1, 2021
Content source: CDC/National Center for Health Statistics