ED visit rates by age U.S.

In 2021, emergency department visit rate was highest among infants under the age of one. Adults 75 years and over had the second highest ED visit rate, while the average for all ages was 43 visits per 100 people in 2021.

Number of emergency department visits per 100 people in the United States in 2021, by age group

Characteristic	Visit rate per 100 people
Total	43
Under 1 year	103
1-17 years	36
18-44 years	45
45-64 years	39
65-74 years	39
75 years and over	66

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Release date

August 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

Number of respondents

16,207 respondents

Special properties

emergency department (ED) visits

Supplementary notes

Visit rates are not the same as percentage of population since one patient may have had more than one visit to the ED that year. As is the case of infants where multiple infants had more than one visits to the ED in 2021.
The source adds the following information: "Data are based on a sample of 16,207 emergency department visits made by patients in 2021, representing about 140 million emergency department visits. Visit rates are based on the July 1, 2021, set of estimates of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. During 2021, about 4% of children had two or more ED visits in the past 12 months."

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