State by State Coronavirus Deaths as Percentage of Population Tracker

Updated January 20, 2022     22 Comments
Originally posted April 5, 2020

COVID-19 Trackers

This page is in the Code Graveyard; this data is outdated and was last updated in 2021.

This tracks coronavirus deaths as a percent of the population for each state in the USA.

States are listed in order by those with the highest percentage of the population that died of coronavirus COVID-19.

(To see the rate of increase for US deaths, see this, or rate of increase for confirmed COVID-19 cases, see this. Or see what percent of the population has been confirmed with coronavirus in each state, or more coronavirus trackers here.)

Below the bar chart, you will find the table of numbers in case you prefer to see the actual data. Jump down there. Or, jump down to see the source of this data.

Note: Data as of October 16, 2021.

STATE BY STATE COVID-19 DEATHS AS PERCENT OF POPULATION
STATE POPULATION # DEATHS # DEATHS AS PERCENT OF POPULATION
Mississippi 2,976,149 9,917 0.33322 %
New Jersey 8,882,190 27,720 0.31209 %
Alabama 4,903,185 15,179 0.30957 %
Louisiana 4,648,794 14,321 0.30806 %
New York 19,453,561 55,484 0.28521 %
Arizona 7,278,717 20,509 0.28177 %
Massachusetts 6,892,503 18,828 0.27317 %
Arkansas 3,017,804 8,195 0.27156 %
Rhode Island 1,059,361 2,860 0.26997 %
Florida 21,477,737 57,859 0.26939 %
South Carolina 5,148,714 13,232 0.25700 %
Georgia 10,617,423 26,811 0.25252 %
South Dakota 884,659 2,189 0.24744 %
Connecticut 3,565,287 8,718 0.24452 %
Indiana 6,732,219 16,245 0.24130 %
Nevada 3,080,156 7,422 0.24096 %
Texas 28,995,881 69,273 0.23891 %
Oklahoma 3,956,971 9,402 0.23761 %
Pennsylvania 12,801,989 30,418 0.23760 %
New Mexico 2,096,829 4,932 0.23521 %
Tennessee 6,829,174 15,696 0.22984 %
Michigan 9,986,857 22,948 0.22978 %
West Virginia 1,792,147 4,108 0.22922 %
North Dakota 762,062 1,714 0.22492 %
Illinois 12,671,821 28,197 0.22252 %
Iowa 3,155,070 6,748 0.21388 %
Kansas 2,913,314 6,199 0.21278 %
Kentucky 4,467,673 9,377 0.20989 %
Delaware 973,764 2,032 0.20867 %
Missouri 6,137,428 12,557 0.20460 %
Montana 1,068,778 2,133 0.19957 %
Ohio 11,689,100 23,327 0.19956 %
Wyoming 578,759 1,080 0.18661 %
Idaho 1,787,065 3,259 0.18237 %
California 39,512,223 70,778 0.17913 %
Maryland 6,045,680 10,703 0.17704 %
District of Columbia 705,749 1,183 0.16762 %
North Carolina 10,488,084 17,472 0.16659 %
Wisconsin 5,822,434 9,141 0.15700 %
Virginia 8,535,519 13,391 0.15689 %
Minnesota 5,639,632 8,531 0.15127 %
Nebraska 1,934,408 2,724 0.14082 %
Colorado 5,758,736 8,052 0.13982 %
New Hampshire 1,359,711 1,520 0.11179 %
Washington 7,614,893 8,295 0.10893 %
Puerto Rico 3,193,694 3,207 0.10042 %
Oregon 4,217,737 4,161 0.09865 %
Utah 3,205,958 3,067 0.09567 %
Alaska 731,545 599 0.08188 %
Maine 1,344,212 1,095 0.08146 %
Hawaii 1,415,872 863 0.06095 %
Vermont 623,989 345 0.05529 %

Sources:
COVID-19 death numbers from The New York Times data repository, based on reports from state and local health agencies.
Population numbers from the US Census Bureau Data API (2019)

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We've 22 Responses

  1. May 8th, 2020 at 5:39 pm

    Wow! You’ve done a lot of work and research. Thank you. Great job!

    Those of us not buying into the prevailing narrative need these stats and those who do need to realize these facts.

    Are you using John Hopkins COVID-19 tracker or the WHO tracker? I ask because the CDC, as you may already know, recently changed their numbers from 60K to 37K.

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    Vinicio Cornejo

  3. June 24th, 2020 at 10:56 am

    Do you retain historical data and can you graph it to show rate of increase? Thanks for this information it really helps put the data into perspective. Knowledge is only as good as the information considered.

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    Shawn Henson

  4. July 5th, 2020 at 4:10 am

    Thank you so much for all your work! Is there also a graph that shows the proportion of cases in relation to tests?
    This would also probably help a lot to reduce the panic due to so many new cases…

    Reply ↓
    Mr. Trick

    • August 2nd, 2020 at 11:53 pm

      Sorry, I haven’t graphed the number of tests. That’s a good point. It’s good for everyone to remember that many cities, and even workplaces, are now testing A LOT more, and this is one reason for greater numbers of confirmed cases.

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      Isabel

      • August 8th, 2020 at 10:49 pm

        If you decide to graph tests, don’t forget that there are several issues you will need to address:
        1. People who test positive have multiple tests until they test negative. Not sure that is addressed in current total number of tests.
        2. There are several tests that are being used and they are not all consistently accurate.
        3. There are reports of people signing up to get tested, they do not take the test and they then get a notice they tested positive.
        4. There are reports that some labs have reported 100% positive tests.

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        C

      • February 13th, 2021 at 10:21 am

        So my understanding based on your numbers that the survival rate for each state if one should get Covid 19 is above 99.5%. Why would we not consider a very excellent survival rate.

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        art formento

  7. August 5th, 2020 at 7:27 am

    Can you show a state by state graph if just daily deaths? If by percentage of population, that’s fine too. Need this to see progress. Daily percent increase is based on a running total and really doesn’t capture daily progress.

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    Jeff

  9. August 29th, 2020 at 1:16 pm

    Finally, got to your site after two weeks of looking! All I can say is WOW! You are now my go to for information. Please keep this data driven and not political. Thank you, for keeping it real!

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    Freddie Schuh

  11. September 17th, 2020 at 9:47 am

    I’m from Georgia and the percentage of deaths to population is 0.0005891%
    population=10,617,423*0.0005891=6255 covid deaths
    (it is not 0.05891 that is shown in your table above)
    It surprises most people how small the number of deaths are compared to how large our population is. In 2019 there were 38,800 deaths from car accidents.

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    Renee French

  12. October 2nd, 2020 at 7:33 am

    I’m looking for just pure daily case and death numbers. It’s the only way to see the trend. Percentage increase or decrease gets watered down by the increasing denominator.

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    Jeff

  13. December 1st, 2020 at 11:20 am

    Any chance you could show the population, number of positive cases, then the number of deaths associated along with the percentage of deaths as related to the number of positive cases?

    Thanks,

    Jim

    Reply ↓
    Jim

  15. September 2nd, 2021 at 10:46 am

    Thanks for the data from state to state in one place! Looking at the numbers, why such a large difference in rates for states at the top of the list to the bottom of the list. I would think that population bases in the one to many millions of people per state would statistically average out. What demographics from state to state are driving the large differences in rates?

    Reply ↓
    Dave P

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