State Profile

Alaska

Population (2024): 700,500 thousand

Alaska’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 outpace the country as a whole. Based on 2022 data, its rates of obesity and related conditions indicate a mixed picture, with the percentage of adults with obesity higher than the U.S. median, even as state rates of people with diabetes and hypertension are lower than the U.S. median.