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Abuzeid: 25% of US nurses will retire within five years.

Dr. Iman Abu Zayed · The strategic framework behind a $1.7 billion start-up | Masters of Scale · May 1, 2025 · at 28:08

Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO of Incredible Health, highlights the demographic pressures accelerating the US healthcare labor shortage.

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“You know, there's 25% of nurses are expected to retire in the next five years.”

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The claim, plainly

Twenty-five percent of nurses in the United States are projected to retire within the next five years.

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Assessment

On May 1, 2025, Dr. Iman Abuzeid stated that approximately 25% of U.S. nurses are expected to retire within five years, establishing a stated horizon of May 1, 2030. As of August 27, 2026, only 15 months of the five-year projection window have elapsed. While interim baseline data from HRSA (projecting ~1.0 million retirements by 2030, or ~22%–25% of the active nurse base), BLS replacement projections (~21%–24%), and the NCSBN 2024 study (18.6% planning direct retirement, 39.9% intending to leave or retire overall) demonstrate that the projection aligns closely with prevailing workforce models, final resolution of the actual cumulative retirements cannot occur until the five-year window concludes in May 2030 and full post-2030 nursing workforce datasets become available.

HRSA's December 2025 Workforce Projections projected that over 1.0 million nurses are expected to retire by 2030, representing approximately 22% to 25% of the active 4.3–4.5 million nurse workforce.
The NCSBN 2024 National Nursing Workforce Study (published April 2025) reported that 18.6% of nurses planned to retire within five years, with 39.9% intending to leave or retire overall, and 18.3% of the workforce already aged 65 or older.
The stated resolution horizon of May 1, 2030, has not yet arrived as of the evaluation date of August 27, 2026.

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[1] ncsbn.org [2] ncsbn.org [3] healthcareworkforce.org [4] healthcareworkforce.org [5] randalolson.com [6] randalolson.com [7] mynursingschools.com [8] nursingworld.org

HRSA nursing workforce projections retirement 2024 2025 NCSBN nursing workforce survey retirement projections five years nursing workforce percent nurses plan to retire next five years NCSBN Incredible health state of nursing report retirement percentage

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⏳ prediction date: 2030-05-01; checked again automatically on the next resolution wave

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