The uninsured rate held steady at about 8% in 2025, according to new federal data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released early estimates from its annual National Health Interview Survey, which found an 8.3% uninsured rate for 2025. By comparison, the rate was 8.2% in 2024, according to the report.
The percentage represents about 28 million uninsured individuals in 2025, up from 27.2 million in the previous year.
Among adults aged 18 to 64, 11.6% were uninsured at the time they were interviewed, according to the CDC, while 21% were enrolled in public health coverage and 69.4% had private health plans.
In addition, 5.6% of children were uninsured, and 40% were enrolled in public insurance programs. Fifty-seven percent were covered by private health plans, according to the CDC data.
The report tracks trends in insurance coverage from 2021 through 2025. Among adults, the overall uninsured rate has remained largely flat over the past five years, with the number of individuals enrolled in public programs declining slightly since 2023 while enrollment in private plans ticked up.
The study found that 13.5% of adults were uninsured in 2021, which dropped to 11.6% by 2025. Public coverage rates were 21.7% in 2021, which grew to 23% by 2023 before declining again to 21% in 2025.
The percentage of people with private coverage rose from 66.6% in 2021 to 69.4% in 2025.
Hispanic adults represented the largest portion of uninsured people when breaking the data down by race and ethnicity, according to the report, though the number of uninsured Hispanic adults is on the decline. In 2021, 30.1% of Hispanic adults were uninsured, which dropped to 21.9% in 2025.
Among Black adults, meanwhile, the percentage of adults who were uninsured decreased from 14.1% in 2021 to 11.3% in 2025, the study found. For white adults, 8.7% were uninsured in 2021, a rate that declined to 6.8% in 2023 before rising again to 8.5% in 2025.
What trends look like for 2026 will be of keen interest to industry watchers and policymakers as massive changes implemented as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or HR-1, begin to take effect. KFF estimated last summer that the full spectrum of changes in the legislation could lead to an additional 17 million people becoming uninsured.