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    • FY 2021 Total Number of Veterans, Veteran VA Users, and Veteran VA Healthcare Users by Sex and Age Group

    Metadata Updated: April 2, 2025

    Notes:

    "Total Number of Veterans" represents FY 2021 projected Veteran counts from VA's Veteran Population Projection Model 2020 (VetPop20). These projections represent living Veterans as of 9/30/2021 and are made with the assumption that Veterans are not missing information (e.g., sex, age, etc.).

    "Veteran VA Users" represents historical Veteran VA user counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2021 (USVETS 2021). These counts represent Veterans who used any VA benefit or service during FY 2021 (includes both living and deceased Veterans as of end of FY 2021).

    "Veteran VA Healthcare Users" represents historical Veteran VA healthcare user counts from VA's United States Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics 2021 (USVETS 2021). These counts represent Veterans who used VA healthcare during FY 2021 (includes both living and deceased Veterans as of end of FY 2021).

    "Veteran VA Users" includes Veteran users of VA healthcare or any other VA benefit or service.

    There are 1,458 Veteran VA Users not shown in the table below whose sex is missing. Of these, 1,360 are missing age. There are 1,387 Veteran VA Healthcare Users not shown in the table below whose sex is missing. Of these, 1,360 are missing age.

    Sources: USVETS 2021 and VetPop20 Effective Date: 9/30/2021

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/6fsh-rj6s
    Data First Published 2025-03-06
    Language English
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-06
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 029:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 0c261ac5-3d05-4dda-8f85-166b17147ba6
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/6fsh-rj6s
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:086
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b53d160b0ff19c3dde0214847b09b1cd810297ce3e46e58c11e0333c0cc76351
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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