State Development Index — comparison

Alabama vs Rhode Island

They differ most on population health Rhode Island leads by 77 points. One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

  1. 784Population health77 apart — Alabama 7, Rhode Island 84
  2. 964Prosperity55 apart — Alabama 9, Rhode Island 64
  3. 639Things get built54 apart — Alabama 63, Rhode Island 9
  4. 6217Starting up45 apart — Alabama 62, Rhode Island 17
  5. 270Openness27 apart — Alabama 27, Rhode Island 0
  6. 4963Labour market14 apart — Alabama 49, Rhode Island 63
  7. 9284Fiscal standing8 apart — Alabama 92, Rhode Island 84
  8. 33Productive basenot comparable — Alabama no score, Rhode Island 33

Tax structure

Alabama

Individual income tax levied

Corporate income tax levied

Rhode Island

Individual income tax levied

Corporate income tax levied

Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections. Where a state levies no such tax the survey records it, and so does this — the absence is a fact, not a gap.

Alabama vs Rhode Island — State Development Index — Applied America