Heart disease accounted for 696,962 deaths in the United States in 2020, an increase of about 5.8% from a year earlier.  In 2020, in the six-state New England region there were 28,580 deaths attributed to heart disease.  With 192.5 deaths per 100,000 population, New England had a regional heart disease death rate that was 9% lower than the national average in 2020.  An examination of state-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following details about heart disease death rates in New England:

Heart Disease Death Rates in New England

State	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Connecticut	7,110	3,557,006	199.9
Maine	3,035	1,350,141	224.8
Massachusetts	11,781	6,893,574	170.9
New Hampshire	2,814	1,366,275	206.0
Rhode Island	2,319	1,057,125	219.4
Vermont	1,521	623,347	244.0
Region	28,580	14,847,468	192.5
U.S.	696,962	329,484,123	211.5

(*) number of heart disease deaths per 100,000 population

Report Period: 2020

Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2020 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2021. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on July 2, 2022