List of Iranian provinces by Human Development Index

Map of the Iranian provinces by Human Development Index in 2017.
Legend:

  0.800 – 1.000 (Very high)

  0.700 – 0.799 (High)

  0.600 – 0.699 (Medium)

This is a list of Iranian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2021 with data for the year 2019.^[1]

Rank	Province	HDI (2019)	Comparable country
Very high human development
1	Tehran (with Alborz)	0.818	Uruguay
2	Isfahan	0.815	Panama
3	Yazd	0.808	Malaysia,  Costa Rica
4	Mazandaran	0.807	Kuwait,  Serbia
	Semnan	0.807	Kuwait,  Serbia
High human development
6	Qom	0.799	Seychelles,  Trinidad and Tobago
	Ilam	0.799	Seychelles,  Trinidad and Tobago
8	Bushehr	0.796	Barbados
9	Fars	0.792	Albania
10	Gilan	0.788	Cuba
11	Khuzestan	0.786	Cuba
–	Iran (average)	0.783	Cuba
12	Kermanshah	0.781	Sri Lanka
13	Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari	0.780	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Qazvin	0.780	Bosnia and Herzegovina
15	Markazi	0.776	Armenia
	Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad	0.776	Armenia
17	East Azerbaijan	0.770	North Macedonia
18	Lorestan	0.766	Colombia
19	Razavi Khorasan	0.765	Brazil
20	Kerman	0.763	China
21	Golestan	0.761	China
22	Hamadan	0.759	Ecuador
23	Zanjan	0.756	Dominican Republic,  Azerbaijan
24	Hormozgan	0.753	Moldova
25	Ardabil	0.746	Algeria
26	West Azerbaijan	0.745	Lebanon
27	South Khorasan	0.742	Dominica
28	Kurdistan	0.732	Jamaica
29	North Khorasan	0.731	Jordan
Medium Human Development
30	Sistan and Baluchestan	0.673	El Salvador

See also[]

• List of countries by Human Development Index

References[]