VetPop2023 Data Story

This is the VetPop2023 Data Story. The Veteran Population Projection Model (VetPop) provides the official Veteran population projections from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). VetPop is a deterministic projection model developed by the VA's National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics to estimate and project the Veteran Population by key demographic characteristics such as age, sex, period of service, and race/ethnicity at various geographic levels for the next 30 years. VetPop is produced every 2 or 3 years and the latest model, VetPop2023, uses the best available Veteran data at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 as the base population and projects the Veteran population from FY2024 to FY2053. See VetPop2023: A Brief Description for information on the methodology and data sources used in VetPop2023.