
U.S. states with highest asthma death rates 2020
experiencing an asthma episode in the past 12 months.
Mississippi, Hawaii, and New Mexico were the top three leading U.S states by number of deaths due to asthma per million population as of 2020. Mississippi reported 18.2 deaths per million population with asthma as the underlying cause of death, while Hawaii reported 17.5 deaths. In 2019, around 41 percent of people in the United States with asthma reported