State Profile

North Dakota

Population (2023): 783,926 thousand

North Dakota’s public health outcomes and emergency preparedness betters some states but falls behind others. The state placed in the low performance tier for public health emergency preparedness in TFAH’s 2024 Ready or Not: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report. Deaths within the state due to drug misuse, alcohol, or suicide trail the country as a whole. Based on 2022 data, the percentage of adults with obesity rank higher than the U.S. median. In addition, the rates of diabetes rank lower than the U.S. median, and hypertension rates rank similarly to the U.S. median.