In 2023, in the United States, almost 2.3 million veterans had a service-connected disability rating of 70 percent or higher. About 10.9 million veterans had no service-connected disability rating at that time.

The SCD Veterans are broken out by SCD ratings (0-20 percent; 30-40 percent; 50-60 percent and 70-100 percent) for FY 1986 to FY 2020. Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration; 1985-1998: COIN CP-127 Reports; 1999-2019: Annual Benefits Reports Prepared by the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, Office of Enterprise Integration, Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2021

In the state of New York, around ** percent of civilian veterans reported a VA service-related disability. This statistic depicts the percentage of civilian veterans aged between 21 and 64 with a VA service-connected disability in the United States in 2023, by state.

This report provides county-level estimates of the number of Veterans who received VA Disability Compensation benefits during fiscal year 2020. It includes the Veterans’ total service-connected disability (SCD) rating, age group, and sex. Blank values represent small cell counts that have been suppressed to protect the identity of Veterans. In the "Total: Disability Compensation Recipients" column, each blank cell represents less than 10 Veterans. Some categories may not sum to the total due to missing information (e.g., age, sex, etc.).

Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Enterprise Integration, United States Veterans Eligibility Trends & Statistics (USVETS) 2020 and Veterans Benefits Administration VETSNET FY 2020 compensation data.

Prepared by National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics, www.va.gov/vetdata.

This dataset contains information on minority veteran healthcare usage, educational attainment, unemployment rates, median income, and projected population figures.

Veterans Utilization Profile FY18 - Fig 15, Trend in Percent Health Care Enrolled Users, Enrolled Non-Users & Non-Enrolled among Service-Connected Disabled. Data underlying the second figure of Part 3 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Percentage of Service-Connected Disabled Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Race/Ethnicity. Data underlying the fourth figure of Part 3 of the FY2023 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Compensation & Pension: All Veterans who received VA disability compensation or pension payments were included. Veterans who received Special Adaptive Housing benefits were also included in the analysis. Veterans with pending or denied claims were not included. Learn more by reading this Utilization report.The U.S. Veterans Eligibility Trends and Statistics (USVETS) is the single integrated dataset of Veteran demographic and socioeconomic data. It provides the most comprehensive picture of the Veteran population possible to support statistical, trend and longitudinal analysis. USVETS has both a static dataset, represents a single authoritative record of all living and deceased Veterans, and fiscal year datasets, represents a snapshot of a Veteran for each fiscal year. USVETS consists mainly of data sources from the Veterans Benefit Administration, the Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Defense’s Defense Manpower Data Center, and other data sources including commercial data sources. This dataset contains information about individual Veterans including demographics, details of military service, VA benefit usage, and more. The dataset contains one record per Veteran. It includes all living and deceased Veterans. USVETS data includes Veterans residing in states, US territories and foreign countries. VA uses this database to conduct statistical analytics, predictive modeling, and other data reporting. USVETS includes the software, hardware, and the associated processes that produce various VA work products and related files for Veteran analytics.

Percentage of Service-Connected Disabled Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Disability Rating, FY 2021. Third figure of Part 3 of the FY2021 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

It was estimated that in the period 2017 to 2021, around 42 percent of veteran men in the United States with a hearing disability also had arthritis. This statistic displays the percentage of veterans in the United States with select disabilities who also had diagnosed arthritis in 2017-2021, by gender.

From 2016 to 2020, it was estimated that around 17.5 percent of employed veterans in the United States had some type of disability. The most common type of disability during this time period was cognitive disability. This statistic shows the percentage of employed adults in the United States with a disability from 2016 to 2020, by type and veteran status

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has confirmed a 2.5% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2025. This increase directly impacts the 2025 VA disability rates and pay chart, resulting in higher monthly payments for veterans with service-connected disability ratings of 10% or higher.

The Annual Benefits Report (ABR) clearly summarizes the benefit programs delivered by VBA identifies the current level of program participation by eligible persons, and profiles the beneficiaries.

Percentage of Service-Connected Disabled Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Disability Rating, FY 2021. Data underlying the third figure of Part 3 of the FY2021 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

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This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales who have previously served in the UK armed forces by disability. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Many who have previously served in the UK armed forces will be older males because of National Service. We applied extra quality assurance to correct some answers from currently serving personnel. Read more about this quality notice.

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. Data are also available in these geographic types:

• country - for example, Wales
• region - for example, London
• local authority - for example, Cornwall
• health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
• statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

UK armed forces veteran indicator

Identifies people who have previously served in the UK armed forces. This includes those who have served for at least one day in armed forces, either regular or reserves, or Merchant Mariners who have seen duty on legally defined military operations.

Disability - Equality act disabled

People who assessed their day-to-day activities as limited by long-term physical or mental health conditions or illnesses are considered disabled. This definition of a disabled person meets the harmonised standard for measuring disability and is in line with the Equality Act (2010).

Percentage Users of Either Health Care or Disability Compensation Compared to Other Programs. Data underlying the first figure of Part 3 of the FY2023 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Percentage of disabled veterans broken down by enrollment in and usage of health care from 2010-2021.

Trends among Service-Connected Disabled Veterans in Percentage Enrolled & Using Health Care, Enrolled & Not Using Health Care, and Not Enrolled for Health Care, FY 2010-2023. Data underlying the second figure of Part 3 of the FY2023 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Percentage of Service-Connected Disable Who Did and Did Not Use Health Care, by Disability Rating, FY 2018. Data underlying the third figure of Part 3 of the FY2018 Utilization Profile, a report on Veterans' use of VA benefits and services.

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.

This quick facts summarizes the Veteran new hires into the Federal government by disabled and by 30 percent and higher disabled groups for 2008 to 2015. It shows the Veteran new hires by agency for 2015 and Veterans by occupation for 2015.