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How Colorado ranks
CO
Among the 50 states + DC —
median rank 22nd
·
all states
vs US states
vs Europe
vs World
▸
Life expectancy
77.7 years
’21
15th
▸
Lowest homicide rate
5.2 per 100k
’24
22nd
▸
Lowest gun deaths
†
16.4 per 100k
’24
30th
▸
Lowest prisoner population
†
290 per 100k
’23
22nd
▸
Paid maternity leave
†
16 weeks
’26
6th
▸
Statutory paid holiday
0 days
’26
1st
▸
Lowest road deaths
†
11.5 per 100k
’24
25th
▸
Lowest drug deaths
‡
30.2 per 100k
’25
43rd
▸
Minimum wage
†
$15.16
’26
10th
▸
Lowest obesity
‡
25 % of adults
’24
1st
▸
GDP per capita
†
$90,360
’24
16th
▸
Lowest unemployment
4.1%
’24
37th
▸
Lowest infant mortality
4.5 per 1k births
’24
11th
▸
Lowest suicide rate
†
22.3 per 100k
’24
47th
▸
Lowest CO₂ per person
†
15.2 t per person
’22
27th
▸
Renewable energy share
†
9.3%
’24
22nd
▸
Nobel laureates per million
‡
0.67 per million
’25
26th
▸
Population
6M people
’25
20th
▸
Land area
268,419 km²
’25
8th
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