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Death rate per 1,000: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Death rate per 1,000. All 50 states and District of Columbia and Puerto Rico with data in Births, deaths and natural increase by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025, year to July 1.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-27

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National value: 9.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 7
RI 9.3
DE 10.3
CT 8.8
NJ 7.9
MD 8.6
MA 8.3
VT 10.5
NH 10

Lowest: 6.2 to 8.3
Group 2: 8.3 to 9.1
Group 3: 9.1 to 10
Group 4: 10 to 10.7
Highest: 10.7 to 14.1

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	West Virginia	14.1
2	Mississippi	12.1
3	Maine	11.9
4	Arkansas	11.8
5	Alabama	11.6
6	Kentucky	11.5
7	Oklahoma	11.2
8	Tennessee	11.1
9	Missouri	10.9
10	Ohio	10.7
10	South Carolina	10.7
12	Louisiana	10.6
13	Pennsylvania	10.5
13	Vermont	10.5
15	Iowa	10.4
15	New Mexico	10.4
17	Delaware	10.3
17	Michigan	10.3
17	Puerto Rico	10.3
20	Indiana	10.2
21	Montana	10
21	New Hampshire	10
23	Kansas	9.9
23	Oregon	9.9
25	Wyoming	9.8
26	Florida	9.7
26	North Carolina	9.7
26	Wisconsin	9.7
29	Arizona	9.4
30	Rhode Island	9.3
30	South Dakota	9.3
32	Nebraska	9.1
33	Illinois	9
33	Nevada	9
33	North Dakota	9
36	Connecticut	8.8
36	Hawaii	8.8
36	Virginia	8.8
39	Georgia	8.7
39	Minnesota	8.7
41	Maryland	8.6
42	Idaho	8.3
42	Massachusetts	8.3
42	Washington	8.3
45	New York	8
46	New Jersey	7.9
47	Alaska	7.5
47	Colorado	7.5
49	Texas	7.4
50	California	7.3
51	District of Columbia	7
52	Utah	6.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates: State Population Totals and Components of Change (NST-EST2025-ALLDATA). Reference period: 2025, year to July 1.

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U.S. states ranked by death rate per 1,000 (2025, year to July 1). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 state totals; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-death-rate-per-1000/

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