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Published by May 24, 2024
In 2022, 54.5 percent of the U.S. population had employment-based health insurance coverage. This statistic depicts the percentage of the U.S. population with employment-based health insurance from 1987 to 2022.
Percentage of U.S. population with employment-based health insurance from 1987 to 2022
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September 2023
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United States
Survey time period
1987 to 2022
Supplementary notes
The estimates by type of coverage are not mutually exclusive; people can be covered by more than one type of health insurance during the year .
This statistic was assembled from several editions of the same report.
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