List of Turkish regions by Human Development Index

Map of the Turkish regions by HDI in 2019.
Legend:

  0.800 – 1.000

  0.700 – 0.799

This is a list of Turkish NUTS1 statistical regions by Human Development Index as of 2021 with data for the year 2019.^[1]

Very High Human Development
Rank	Region	2019 HDI	Comparable country (2019)[2]
1	Istanbul	0.846	Argentina
2	East Marmara	0.843
3	West Anatolia	0.832	Montenegro
4	West Marmara	0.820	Belarus,  Uruguay
–	Turkey	0.820	Belarus,  Uruguay
5	Aegean	0.815	Panama
6	East Black Sea	0.802	Mauritius
High Human Development
7	Central Anatolia	0.798	Seychelles,  Trinidad and Tobago
8	Mediterranean	0.794	Albania
9	West Black Sea	0.791
10	Northeast Anatolia	0.782	Sri Lanka
11	Central East Anatolia	0.754	Azerbaijan,  Dominican Republic
12	Southeast Anatolia	0.743	Fiji

Development 1990–2018[]

Human Development Index of Turkish statistical regions since 1990.

Rank	State	HDI 1990	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	HDI 2018	Improvement 1990–2018
1	West Anatolia	0.619	0.658	0.713	0.738	0.793	0.816	0.826	0.207
2	West Marmara	0.542	0.592	0.671	0.702	0.758	0.797	0.814	0.272
3	Istanbul	0.665	0.677	0.700	0.738	0.779	0.824	0.844	0.179
4	East Marmara	0.593	0.639	0.704	0.724	0.769	0.827	0.843	0.250
5	Aegean	0.607	0.632	0.674	0.708	0.753	0.794	0.813	0.206
6	West Black Sea	0.554	0.586	0.645	0.684	0.737	0.775	0.787	0.233
7	Central Anatolia	0.540	0.579	0.645	0.682	0.739	0.780	0.795	0.255
8	Mediterranean	0.589	0.619	0.659	0.677	0.725	0.775	0.791	0.202
9	East Black Sea	0.576	0.603	0.643	0.676	0.726	0.790	0.797	0.221
10	Central East Anatolia	0.467	0.492	0.560	0.618	0.672	0.732	0.748	0.281
11	Southeast Anatolia	0.501	0.524	0.569	0.614	0.680	0.728	0.741	0.240
12	Northeast Anatolia	0.477	0.500	0.565	0.633	0.680	0.754	0.775	0.298
–	Turkey (average)	0.579	0.607	0.656	0.691	0.743	0.800	0.820	0.241

See also[]

• List of countries by Human Development Index

References[]