- 8.3% or 28.3 million individuals in the US did not have health insurance at any point of the year in 2021.
- The dominant major type of coverage was private health insurance at 66.0 percent
- Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, the most prevalent was employment-based insurance at 54.3 percent
- However, overall, it is public health insurance coverage that grew by 1.2% from 2020.
- Uninsured children below 19 years of age decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 5% between 2020 and 2021.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-274.html