The infant mortality rate in 2000 was 6.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, below the national rate of 6.9. Wyoming has the lowest number, ratio, and rate of abortions of all the states—110 in 1999, or 1 per 1,000 women. In 2000, the state's overall death rate—815.1 per 100,000 population—was well below the national rate of 873.1. The death rates for heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases and cancer were well below the national norm in 2000, but the rates for motor vehicle accidents, suicide and accidental deaths were above it.
Among residents 18 years of age and older, 23.8% were reported to be regular smokers in 2000 The rate of death due to lung disease was 74.0 per 100,000 population in 2000. The rate of HIV-related deaths in Wyoming was one of the lowest in the nation in 2000 a total of just 192 AIDS cases had been reported through 2001.
Wyoming's 24 community hospitals had 47,587 admissions and 1,920 beds in 2001. There were 1,608 full-time registered nurses and 295 full-time licensed practical nurses in 2001 and 197 physicians per 100,000 population in 2000. The average expense of a community hospital for care was $1,129.80 per inpatient day in 1998.
Federal government grants to cover the Medicare and Medicaid services in 2001 totaled $186 million; 66,439 enrollees received Medicare benefits that year. At least 15.9% of Wyoming's residents were uninsured in 2002.