| Selected Indicators on Puerto Rico, Compared to the 50 States and DC | ||
| Puerto Rico | 50 States and DC | |
| Total Population (2015)1 | 3,449,000 | 317,480,000 |
| Percent Change Since 20062 | -12% | +8% |
| Demographic Characteristics (2015)3 | ||
| U.S. Born Citizens | 97% | 86% |
| Identify as Hispanic | 99% | 18% |
| Over age 65 | 18% | 15% |
| Below 100% FPL | 46% | 15% |
| Health Coverage (2015)4 | ||
| Medicaid/CHIP | 49% | 20% |
| Employer-Sponsored Insurance/Direct Purchase | 35% | 60% |
| Medicare or Military | 11% | 11% |
| Uninsured | 6% | 9% |
| Economic Statistics | ||
| Median Household Income (2016)5 | $20,078 | $57,617 |
| Seasonally-Adjusted Unemployment Rate (August 2017)6 | 10% | 4% |
| Health Statistics | ||
| Adults Reporting Fair/Poor General Health (2016)7 | 34% | 18% |
| Adults Reporting Diabetes (2016)8 | 15% | 11% |
| Adults Reporting Heart Attack or Heart Disease (2016)9 | 11% | 7% |
| Locally-Acquired Zika Virus Disease Cases (2016)10 | 34,963 | 224 |
| HIV Diagnosis Rate per 100,000 People (2015)11 | 17.1 | 14.7 |
| Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 Live Births (2013)12 | 7.1 | 6.0 |
| Federal Medicaid Rules13 | ||
| Federal Matching Rate | Fixed at 55% | Ranges from 50-83% based on state’s per capita income |
| Federal Funding | Capped at $357.8 million in FY 2018 | Uncapped |
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates.
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2006 and 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates.
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates.
Ibid.
Gloria G. Guzman, Household Income: 2016, American Community Survey Briefs (U.S. Census Bureau, September 2017), https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/acs/acsbr16-02.pdf.
“State Employment and Unemployment,” United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, accessed September 2017, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.toc.htm.
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
Ibid.
Ibid.
“2016 Case Counts in the US,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/zika/reporting/2016-case-counts.html.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) Atlas Plus, updated 2017, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/atlas/index.htm.
Mathews TJ, MacDorman MF, Thoma ME, Infant Mortality Statistics from the 2013 period linked birth/infant death data set. National vital statistics reports; vol 64 no 9. Hyatsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2015.
“Medicaid Financing and Spending in Puerto Rico,” MACPAC, September 2017, https://www.macpac.gov/publication/medicaid-financing-and-spending-in-puerto-rico/.
Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates.
Ibid.
Congress approved an additional $295.9 million in Medicaid funding under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, projected to exhaust in September 2017. “Medicaid Financing and Spending in Puerto Rico,” MACPAC, September 2017, https://www.macpac.gov/publication/medicaid-financing-and-spending-in-puerto-rico/.
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 8 Questions and Answers about Puerto Rico (Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, September 2016), https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/fact-sheet/8-questions-and-answers-about-puerto-rico/.
Maggie Astor, “Puerto Rico: What Other Americans Should Know,” New York Times (September 26, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-american.html.
Olga Khazan, “The Crisis at Puerto Rico’s Hospitals,” The Atlantic (September 26, 2017), https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/09/the-crisis-at-puerto-ricos-hospitals/541131/.