{"id":7910,"date":"2026-05-28T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:43:07","slug":"cdc-stats-of-the-states-2024-state-data-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2026\/05\/28\/7910\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC \u201cStats of the States\u201d \u2014 2024 State Data Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/state-stats\/states\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7911\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2026\/05\/26-364748-LinkedIn-Template-OIS-Final.png\" alt=\"Map of the United States with figures pointing at it, featuring icons for birth and death statistics. Text states: &quot;Stats of the States - 2024 birth and death data now available! Explore how trends are shifting across the United States: bit.ly\/4u061P1.&quot; Includes logos for CDC and additional CDC web address.\" width=\"411\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics updated its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/state-stats\/index.html\">Stats of the States<\/a>\u201d pages with the final 2024 state-level data on selected vital statistics topics, including\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General fertility rates<\/li>\n<li>Teen birth rates<\/li>\n<li>Leading causes of death<\/li>\n<li>Other major causes of death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The map pages let you sort and compare states from highest to lowest (or vice versa). All death rates are age-adjusted. Rates are shown on the maps because they best illustrate how a measure affects each state.<\/p>\n<p>The main \u201cStats of the States\u201d page can be accessed at:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/state-stats\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/state-stats\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics updated its \u201cStats of the States\u201d pages with the final 2024 state-level data on selected vital statistics topics, including\u2014 General fertility rates Teen birth rates Leading causes of death Other major causes of death The map pages let you sort and compare states from highest to lowest (or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53775,53776,10559,53749,61962,62260,49481,29100,62276,62283,90,63661,63764,63769,54842],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}