Nonsignificant increase seen from 2023; 11.6 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 and 5.1 percent of children aged 0 to 17 were uninsured in 2024
By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, June 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A total of 27.2 million people of all ages were uninsured in 2024, marking a nonsignificant increase from 25.0 million in 2023, according to early estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2024, released by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Robin A. Cohen, Ph.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues calculated health insurance coverage estimates for 2024 using data from the National Health Interview Survey; they also examined selected trends from 2020 to 2024.
The researchers found that 27.2 million people of all ages (8.2 percent) were uninsured at the time of the interview in 2024. This was higher than 2023, when 25.0 million people of all ages (7.6 percent) were uninsured, but the difference was not statistically significant. In 2024, 11.6 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 years were uninsured at the time of interview, while 21.2 and 69.1 percent had public and private health insurance coverage, respectively. Compared with 2023, the percentage of adults aged 18 to 64 years with public coverage was lower in 2024 (21.2 versus 23.0 percent). Among children aged 0 to 17 years, 5.1, 41.6, and 55.4 percent were uninsured, had public coverage, and had private coverage, respectively.
There was an increase seen in the percentage of people younger than age 65 years with exchange-based coverage, from 3.8 percent in 2020 to 5.7 percent in 2024.
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