America's Health Rankings: How all 50 states fared

UnitedHealth Group ranked Vermont as the healthiest state and Mississippi as the least healthy state in 2019, according to its annual population health rankings.

For its America's Health Rankings, UnitedHealth used the weighted sum of the number of standard deviations each core measure is from the national average. The insurer uses more than 30 metrics for its composite index.

Here's how all 50 states fared:

1. Vermont
2. Massachusetts
3. Hawaii
4. Connecticut
5. Utah
6. New Hampshire
7. Minnesota
8. New Jersey
9. Washington
10. Colorado
11. New York
12. California
13. Rhode Island
14. North Dakota
15. Virginia
16. Idaho
17. Nebraska
18. Maryland
19. Wyoming
20. Iowa
21. Maine
22. Oregon
23. Wisconsin
24. Montana
25. South Dakota
26. Illinois
27. Alaska
28. Pennsylvania
29. Kansas
30. Delaware
31. Arizona
32. Michigan
33. Florida
34. Texas
35. Nevada
36. North Carolina
37. New Mexico
38. Ohio
39. Missouri
40. Georgia
41. Indiana
42. South Carolina
43. Kentucky
44. Tennessee
45. West Virginia
46. Oklahoma
47. Alabama
48. Arkansas
49. Louisiana
50. Mississippi