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State Development Index — pillar

Population health

One comparable public-health read, asked the same way of every state.

Population health 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. 1HI Hawaii97
  2. 2MA Massachusetts96
  3. 3NJ New Jersey94
  4. 4NY New York90
  5. 5CA California88
  6. 6RI Rhode Island84
  7. 7VT Vermont83
  8. 8CT Connecticut81
  9. 9NH New Hampshire80
  10. 10MN Minnesota77
  11. 11WA Washington75
  12. 12CO Colorado71
  13. 12MD Maryland71
  14. 14FL Florida69
  15. 15UT Utah68
  16. 16VA Virginia63
  17. 17ME Maine60
  18. 18DC Washington, D.C.55
  19. 18IL Illinois55
  20. 18PA Pennsylvania55
  21. 21DE Delaware52
  22. 22MI Michigan51
  23. 22OR Oregon51
  24. 22ID Idaho51
  25. 25IA Iowa50
  26. 26NE Nebraska47
  27. 26ND North Dakota47
  28. 28MT Montana46
  29. 29AZ Arizona45
  30. 30TX Texas44
  31. 31NC North Carolina41
  32. 31WI Wisconsin41
  33. 33NV Nevada38
  34. 34WY Wyoming36
  35. 34OH Ohio36
  36. 36GA Georgia34
  37. 37SC South Carolina31
  38. 38MO Missouri30
  39. 38KS Kansas30
  40. 40AK Alaska29
  41. 41SD South Dakota28
  42. 42OK Oklahoma24
  43. 43NM New Mexico23
  44. 44IN Indiana22
  45. 44KY Kentucky22
  46. 44WV West Virginia22
  47. 47AR Arkansas11
  48. 48AL Alabama7
  49. 48LA Louisiana7
  50. 50MS Mississippi1
  51. —TN TennesseeNot scored — Adult obesity, 2024

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

Population health — every state ranked — Applied America