If you have an emergency, then you probably don't want to be in Maryland — the state has the longest hospital waiting times in the country.

While the average American waits two hours and 25 minutes to be seen in the ER, residents in Maryland wait three hours and 48 minutes.

That's according to a new analysis by the online pharmacy NiceRx which ranked US states in terms of emergency room waiting times and healthcare spending for 2020.

The above map shows average hospital wait times across the US in 2020, the latest year available.

The above map shows healthcare spending by state, although this was not broken down to per head of population.

The second worst state for waiting times in the US was Delaware, at three hours and 15 minutes, followed by Massachusetts at three hours and nine minutes.

At the other end of the scale was North Dakota, with an average wait time of one hour and 44 minutes.

Just above the state were South Dakota and Nebraska, with average waiting times just below two hours.

Figures on hospital wait times were compiled using the Becker's Hospital Review, which monitors healthcare units across the country.

Officials calculated total healthcare spending in each state by summing together ten different categories