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Chronic lower respiratory disease death rate, 2024: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Chronic lower respiratory disease death rate, 2024 (age-adjusted). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Leading causes of death by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-11

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National value: 32.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 17.7
RI 27.7
DE 29.6
CT 23.2
NJ 20
MD 23
MA 24.8
VT 30.8
NH 33.8

Lowest: 15.2 to 28.2
Group 2: 28.2 to 31.2
Group 3: 31.2 to 36.1
Group 4: 36.1 to 43.3
Highest: 43.3 to 59.5

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.

Note: Provisional 2024 rates; final figures may differ slightly.


1	Oklahoma	59.5
2	Kentucky	57.3
3	Mississippi	57
4	Arkansas	56.9
5	West Virginia	56.6
6	Wyoming	51.4
7	Tennessee	49.3
8	Indiana	48.7
9	Alabama	46
10	Missouri	43.8
11	Nevada	43.3
12	Nebraska	41.9
13	Montana	41.8
14	Maine	41.3
15	Ohio	40.5
16	Kansas	40.2
17	Iowa	38
18	Michigan	37.2
19	Georgia	36.3
20	Louisiana	36.2
21	South Dakota	36.1
22	New Mexico	36
23	South Carolina	35.7
24	North Carolina	35.3
25	Idaho	35
26	Colorado	34.2
27	New Hampshire	33.8
28	Arizona	33.7
29	North Dakota	32
30	Oregon	31.5
31	Wisconsin	31.2
32	Texas	30.9
33	Vermont	30.8
34	Alaska	30.6
35	Virginia	30.1
36	Utah	29.7
37	Delaware	29.6
38	Florida	29.3
38	Pennsylvania	29.3
40	Illinois	28.7
41	Washington	28.2
42	Rhode Island	27.7
43	Minnesota	27.3
44	Massachusetts	24.8
45	California	23.7
46	Connecticut	23.2
47	Maryland	23
48	New York	21.2
49	New Jersey	20
50	District of Columbia	17.7
51	Hawaii	15.2

Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, VSRR Quarterly provisional estimates for selected indicators of mortality (data.cdc.gov dataset 489q-934x), 12 months ending with 2024 Q4, age-adjusted rates. Reference period: 2024.

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U.S. states ranked by chronic lower respiratory disease death rate, 2024 (age-adjusted) (2024). Data: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, NCHS – VSRR Quarterly provisional estimates for selected indicators of mortality, data.cdc.gov dataset 489q-934x (12 months ending with 2024 Q4, age-adjusted); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-chronic-lower-respiratory-disease-death-rate-2024/

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