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    • FY 2021 Total Number of Veterans, Veteran VA Users, and Veteran VA Healthcare Users by Race

    Metadata Updated: August 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., race, 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.

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

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

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

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 16, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/dg8j-vep9
    Data First Published 2022-11-28
    Language English
    Data Last Modified 2022-11-28
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 029:40
    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
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    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/dg8j-vep9
    License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
    Program Code 029:086
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8473342462ef88744b7cf712f54aeed45b085060c276fc553b81505fe56e6fa1
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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