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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report by State

All Cancer Sites, 2019-2023

Hispanic (any race), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


United States


Hawaii


New Mexico


Wyoming


Colorado


Arizona


Texas


North Dakota


Michigan


California


Alaska


Kansas


Florida


Pennsylvania


Washington


Utah


Oklahoma


Connecticut


Nevada


Montana


Wisconsin


Minnesota


Illinois


Massachusetts


Oregon


Idaho


Indiana


New York


New Hampshire


New Jersey


Delaware


Nebraska


South Dakota


Georgia


Virginia


Ohio


Rhode Island


Iowa


South Carolina


Vermont


North Carolina


Missouri


Maryland


District of Columbia


Arkansas


Tennessee


Mississippi


Maine


Kentucky


Louisiana


West Virginia


Alabama


Puerto Rico


Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/17/2026 4:41 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.

Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.


† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (20 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85-89, 90+).

The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal.

Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.

The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.

‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.

⋔ Results presented with the CI*Rank statistics help show the usefulness of ranks. For example, ranks for relatively rare diseases or less populated areas may be essentially meaningless because of their large variability, but ranks for more common diseases in densely populated regions can be very useful. More information about methodology can be found on the CI*Rank website.

Healthy People 2030 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category.

If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

¶¶¶ Data for Puerto Rico is only available for All Races (includes Hispanics). For more information see data not available.

NHIA (NAACCR Hispanic Identification Algorithm) was used for Hispanic Ethnicity (see Technical Notes section of the USCS).

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

CI*Rank data for Puerto Rico is not available.