Mortality
US Death Rates by State
Age-adjusted death rates by US state or region, for about 20 leading causes, updated quarterly.
For all causes, Mississippi had the highest age-adjusted rate of any state as of 2025 Q3 (972.0 per 100,000) and Hawaii the lowest (560.2); the national rate is 714.1.
Data table
| State | Age-adjusted rate (per 100,000) |
|---|---|
| Mississippi | 972 |
| West Virginia | 948.4 |
| Oklahoma | 935.4 |
| Kentucky | 922.2 |
| Arkansas | 916.3 |
| Tennessee | 906.6 |
| Alabama | 903.4 |
| Louisiana | 863.6 |
| Indiana | 828 |
| Missouri | 828 |
| Ohio | 819.1 |
| South Carolina | 817.2 |
| New Mexico | 796.4 |
| Kansas | 783.7 |
| North Carolina | 781.8 |
| Michigan | 776.2 |
| Georgia | 774.3 |
| Maine | 765.6 |
| Iowa | 755.6 |
| Alaska | 752.2 |
| Wyoming | 748.8 |
| South Dakota | 746.2 |
| Nevada | 740.7 |
| Oregon | 736.3 |
| Pennsylvania | 735.8 |
| Montana | 731.3 |
| Delaware | 728.5 |
| Nebraska | 727.4 |
| Texas | 725.4 |
| Wisconsin | 724 |
| Utah | 718.7 |
| North Dakota | 709.4 |
| Virginia | 703.8 |
| Illinois | 699.6 |
| Vermont | 697.5 |
| Arizona | 696.5 |
| Idaho | 691.6 |
| Washington | 687.8 |
| District of Columbia | 687.4 |
| New Hampshire | 680.3 |
| Maryland | 674.4 |
| Colorado | 671.7 |
| Minnesota | 663.3 |
| Rhode Island | 651.3 |
| Florida | 628.3 |
| Connecticut | 623 |
| Massachusetts | 622.3 |
| California | 604.6 |
| New Jersey | 601.5 |
| New York | 584.2 |
| Hawaii | 560.2 |
Each tile is a state (plus DC) in its rough real position, coloured by its rate, darker means higher for whichever cause is selected. Every state keeps its spot even with no data this quarter (a small grey tile) so the map stays complete.
Age-adjusted rates, 12 months ending with the listed quarter, from NCHS's quarterly provisional release, not the finalized annual WONDER figures used elsewhere on this site, and only available back to 2023. A state's rate can be suppressed or missing for a quarter with too few deaths to report reliably. Nothing here is individual-level.
Population by Region
From 2010 to 2023, the South grew the most (+13.3%), while the Midwest grew the least (+2.9%).
Data table
| Year | Northeast | Midwest | South | West |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 55,380,134 | 66,974,416 | 114,866,680 | 72,100,436 |
| 2011 | 55,604,223 | 67,157,800 | 116,006,522 | 72,788,329 |
| 2012 | 55,775,216 | 67,336,743 | 117,241,208 | 73,477,823 |
| 2013 | 55,901,806 | 67,560,379 | 118,364,400 | 74,167,130 |
| 2014 | 56,006,011 | 67,745,167 | 119,624,037 | 74,925,793 |
| 2015 | 56,034,684 | 67,860,583 | 120,997,341 | 75,742,555 |
| 2016 | 56,042,330 | 67,987,540 | 122,351,760 | 76,559,681 |
| 2017 | 56,059,240 | 68,126,781 | 123,542,189 | 77,257,329 |
| 2018 | 56,046,620 | 68,236,628 | 124,569,433 | 77,834,820 |
| 2019 | 55,982,803 | 68,329,004 | 125,580,448 | 78,347,268 |
| 2020 | 57,430,477 | 68,969,794 | 126,465,281 | 78,661,381 |
| 2021 | 57,243,423 | 68,850,246 | 127,353,282 | 78,602,026 |
| 2022 | 57,026,847 | 68,783,028 | 128,702,030 | 78,759,506 |
| 2023 | 56,983,517 | 68,909,283 | 130,125,290 | 78,896,805 |
US Census Bureau region totals (Northeast, Midwest, South, West), July 1 resident population estimates, a real published sum, not derived from the state death rates above. The 2019-to-2020 step partly reflects the decennial Census resetting each region's count, not a sudden one-year change.