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State Development Index — pillar

Fiscal standing

What the bond market thinks of the state as a counterparty.

Fiscal standing across the United States
A map sizes states by land area, not by value — Wyoming shouts and Rhode Island vanishes. The ranked list beside it is the reading.
  1. 1UT Utah100
  2. 1WA Washington100
  3. 1FL Florida100
  4. 1TX Texas100
  5. 1NC North Carolina100
  6. 1MD Maryland100
  7. 1VA Virginia100
  8. 1MO Missouri100
  9. 1SD South Dakota100
  10. 1IA Iowa100
  11. 1TN Tennessee100
  12. 1DC Washington, D.C.100
  13. 1DE Delaware100
  14. 1MN Minnesota100
  15. 1GA Georgia100
  16. 1SC South Carolina100
  17. 1IN Indiana100
  18. 18CO Colorado92
  19. 18NH New Hampshire92
  20. 18VT Vermont92
  21. 18NE Nebraska92
  22. 18MA Massachusetts92
  23. 18NY New York92
  24. 18WI Wisconsin92
  25. 18WY Wyoming92
  26. 18MI Michigan92
  27. 18AZ Arizona92
  28. 18MT Montana92
  29. 18OH Ohio92
  30. 18ND North Dakota92
  31. 18OR Oregon92
  32. 18ID Idaho92
  33. 18NV Nevada92
  34. 18AL Alabama92
  35. 18AR Arkansas92
  36. 36HI Hawaii84
  37. 36CA California84
  38. 36KS Kansas84
  39. 36OK Oklahoma84
  40. 36ME Maine84
  41. 36MS Mississippi84
  42. 36RI Rhode Island84
  43. 36LA Louisiana84
  44. 36WV West Virginia84
  45. 36NM New Mexico84
  46. 46CT Connecticut76
  47. 46PA Pennsylvania76
  48. 46KY Kentucky76
  49. 46AK Alaska76
  50. 50NJ New Jersey68
  51. 51IL Illinois52

Scores are percentile ranks within the 51 jurisdictions, so they say how many a state beats rather than by how much. Adjacent positions can represent trivial real differences; the state profile prints the underlying figure for every indicator.

The whole index

Fiscal standing — every state ranked — Applied America