List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index

Map of the U.S. states by Human Development Index in 2018.

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> 0.940

0.921 – 0.940

0.900 – 0.920

< 0.900

This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, according to the UN. It is not to be confused with the American Human Development Index.


Rank	State, federal district, or territory	HDI (2019) ^{[note 1]}^[1]	Comparable country (2019)^{[note 2]}^[2]
Very high human development
1	Massachusetts	0.956	Norway
2	Connecticut	0.954	Ireland, Switzerland
3	Minnesota	0.953	Ireland, Switzerland
4	New Jersey	0.948	Iceland, Hong Kong, Germany
	New Hampshire
	Colorado
—	District of Columbia	0.946	Germany
7	North Dakota
7	Washington
9	Hawaii	0.945	Sweden
10	New York	0.944	Australia, Netherlands
11	Maryland	0.941	Denmark
12	Vermont	0.940
13	Nebraska	0.939
14	Wyoming	0.938	Finland, Singapore
15	Alaska	0.936
	California
	Delaware
	Oregon
	Virginia
20	Iowa	0.935	Finland, Singapore, United Kingdom
20	Utah	0.935	Finland, Singapore, United Kingdom
22	Illinois	0.934	United Kingdom
22	Wisconsin	0.934
24	South Dakota	0.932
25	Rhode Island	0.930	Belgium, New Zealand
26	Pennsylvania	0.928	Canada
27	Kansas	0.927	Canada
—	United States (average)	0.926	Canada
28	Maine	0.922	Austria
29	Montana	0.921	Austria
30	Ohio	0.919	Israel, Liechtenstein
31	Michigan	0.918	Israel, Liechtenstein, Slovenia
32	Texas	0.917	Slovenia
33	Florida	0.916	Luxembourg, South Korea
34	Arizona	0.913
34	Missouri	0.913
36	Idaho	0.912
	Indiana
	North Carolina
39	Georgia	0.910	Luxembourg, South Korea, Spain
40	Nevada	0.909	Spain
41	New Mexico	0.906	Spain
42	Oklahoma	0.901	France
42	Tennessee
—	Guam (2017) ^[3]
44	South Carolina	0.898	Czech Republic
45	Louisiana	0.893	Estonia, Italy
—	U.S. Virgin Islands (2017)^[3]	0.892	Estonia, Italy
46	Kentucky	0.890	United Arab Emirates
47	Arkansas	0.886	Cyprus
47	Alabama	0.886	Cyprus
49	West Virginia	0.882	Lithuania
—	Northern Mariana Islands (2017)^[3]	0.875	Poland
50	Mississippi	0.871	Andorra
—	Puerto Rico (2017)^[3]	0.845	Argentina
—	American Samoa (2017)^[3]	0.827	Romania, Palau

Notes[]

^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2019.
^ In this column, the 50 states and the District of Columbia are matched with a country which had a similar HDI in 2019.

References[]

^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene" (PDF). hdr.undp.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[1] In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2019.

[3] In this column, the 50 states and the District of Columbia are matched with a country which had a similar HDI in 2019.

[2] "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[4] "Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene" (PDF). hdr.undp.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[:0-5] "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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