How vaccination rates are changing in each state: Up in 40, down in 10

U.S. vaccination rates have risen by 5 percent in the past week, according to CDC data last updated Aug. 9.

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Mississippi has seen the biggest increase in administered COVID-19 vaccines, with vaccination rates rising by 96 percent in the past week, according to The Washington Post‘s tracker of weekly change in vaccine administration.

Below are the 50 states and Washington, D.C., ranked by their weekly change in COVID-19 vaccines administered:

  1. Mississippi: up 96 percent
  2. Alaska: up 53 percent
  3. Arizona: up 50 percent
  4. Maine: up 46 percent
  5. Alabama: up 42 percent
  6. District of Columbia: up 41 percent
  7. Arkansas: up 38 percent
  8. Iowa: up 31 percent
  9. South Dakota: up 29 percent
  10. Hawaii: up 22 percent
  11. South Carolina: up 22 percent
  12. West Virginia: up 22 percent
  13. Montana: up 21 percent
  14. Michigan: up 21 percent
  15. Tennessee: up 19 percent
  16. Wisconsin: up 19 percent
  17. Oklahoma: up 17 percent
  18. Louisiana: up 15 percent
  19. Vermont: up 15 percent
  20. Kentucky: up 15 percent
  21. Minnesota: up 12 percent
  22. Florida: up 11 percent
  23. Kansas: up 10 percent
  24. Oregon: up 10 percent
  25. Texas: up 10 percent
  26. Washington: up 9 percent
  27. Idaho: up 9 percent
  28. Utah: up 9 percent
  29. Maryland: up 8 percent
  30. North Dakota: up 6 percent
  31. Rhode Island: up 6 percent
  32. Indiana: up 5 percent
  33. Nevada: up 4 percent
  34. Colorado: up 4 percent
  35. New York: up 3 percent
  36. North Carolina: up 3 percent
  37. Nebraska: up 2 percent
  38. Ohio: up 2 percent
  39. Connecticut: up less than 1 percent
  40. California: up less than 1 percent
  41. Missouri: up less than 1 percent
  42. Illinois: down 6 percent
  43. Wyoming: down 6 percent
  44. Delaware: down 9 percent
  45. New Jersey: down 10 percent
  46. Massachusetts: down 10 percent
  47. Pennsylvania: down 11 percent 
  48. New Hampshire: down 11 percent
  49. Virginia: down 12 percent
  50. New Mexico: down 12 percent
  51. Georgia: down 27 percent
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