For every 100 females there were 94.7 males, slightly under the US average.

There was $5114 spent on health expenses per capita in the state, compared to the US average of $5283.

Mississippi's rate is more than 60 percent above the U.S. average.

The US national average is a score of 1509 (501 verbal, 516 math, and 492 writing).

This compares with the US national average of 1.1%.

The following cost of living indices are based on a US average of 100.

Black people have higher rates of obesity, diabetes and hypertension than the US average.

The US average on the comfort index is 44.

From 1988 to 1993, the state saw tobacco use decline by 27%, three times better than the U.S. average.

The median age is 41 years compared to a U.S. average of 35.3.