27 U.S. States Have Suffered 1,000 or More Coronavirus Deaths

The U.S. coronavirus death toll climbed to at least 160,104 on Friday, according to the latest report by Johns Hopkins University.

New York tops the death toll ranking, with 32,756 fatalities to date, followed by New Jersey (15,849), California (10,021) and Massachusetts (8,691) and Texas (8,569) in the top five slots for states with the most number of deaths.

New York City has a higher death rate than all 50 states, with 281 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the latest report Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

New Jersey has the largest death rate among the states, reporting 178 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by Massachusetts (125), Connecticut (124), Rhode Island (96) and Louisiana (88), according to the CDC.

More than half of the states have each seen 1,000 or more total COVID-19 deaths to date, while five states have each seen less than 70 total fatalities. They include Montana (65 deaths), Vermont (58), Hawaii (29), Wyoming (27) and Alaska (25), which has the lowest death toll in the country.

While Hawaii has a low death count so far, new infections in the state have been rising on a sharp upward trend over roughly the past two weeks from July 22 to August 4, according to the latest report Thursday by Johns Hopkins University.

South Dakota, which also has a relatively low death count (141 fatalities) compared with that of most other states, has seen a growth in new cases over the same 14-day period.

The country's daily death toll rose on a sharp incline between mid-March and mid-April, peaking on April 17 when it recorded 2,666 deaths. From then, it went on a downward trend, mostly declining through late June. Daily new deaths have been mostly increasing through July and August, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. has the 10th highest death rate in the world, reporting 48.37 deaths per 100,000 people, overtaking that of Canada, Mexico and Brazil in the Americas as well as France and The Netherlands in Europe.

The graphics below, provided by Statista, illustrate the spread of COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

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Total COVID-19 deaths per U.S. state

Source: Johns Hopkins University (as of August 7)

1. New York: 32,756
2. New Jersey: 15,849
3. California: 10,021
4. Massachusetts: 8,691
5. Texas: 8,569
6. Illinois: 7,791
7. Florida: 7,747
8. Pennsylvania: 7,282
9. Michigan: 6,506
10. Connecticut: 4,437
11. Louisiana: 4,146
12. Georgia: 4,026
13. Arizona: 4,002
14. Ohio: 3,618
15. Maryland: 3,551
16. Indiana: 3,013
17. Virginia: 2,299
18. North Carolina: 2,126
19. South Carolina: 1,942
20. Colorado: 1,852
21. Mississippi: 1,825
22. Alabama: 1,714
23. Minnesota: 1,677
24. Washington: 1,653
25. Missouri: 1,302
26. Tennessee: 1,186
27. Rhode Island: 1,014
28. Wisconsin: 978
29. Iowa: 912
30. Nevada: 900
31. Kentucky: 760
32. New Mexico: 669
33. Oklahoma: 593
34. Delaware: 587
35. Arkansas: 515
36. New Hampshire: 419
37. Kansas: 378
38. Nebraska: 340
39. Oregon: 339
40. Utah: 330
41. Idaho: 223
42. South Dakota: 141
43. Maine: 124
44. West Virginia: 124
45. North Dakota: 109
46. Montana: 65
47. Vermont: 58
48. Hawaii: 29
49. Wyoming: 27
50. Alaska: 25

Over 19.1 million people globally have been infected since the virus was first reported in Wuhan, China, including more than 4.8 million in the U.S. Over 11.5 million globally have reportedly recovered from infection, while more than 715,000 have died, as of Friday.

The graphic below, provided by Statista, illustrates the countries with the most COVID-19 cases.