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

Not to be confused with List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index.

Map of the U.S. states by Human Development Index in 2022
  > 0.945
  0.921 – 0.945
  0.900 – 0.920
  < 0.900

This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, territory, and federal district according to the UN.

Rank State,
federal district,
or territory 		HDI (2023)
[note 1][1]
1 Massachusetts 0.956
New Hampshire
3 Colorado 0.952
Washington
5 Minnesota 0.951
6 Connecticut 0.950
— District of Columbia 0.947
7 Hawaii
8 Vermont 0.945
9 New Jersey 0.943
10 Maryland 0.942
11 Virginia 0.939
12 Oregon 0.938
United States
13 New York 0.937
14 Wyoming 0.936
15 California 0.935
16 North Dakota 0.934
Rhode Island
18 Illinois 0.932
19 Alaska 0.931
Nebraska
Utah
22 Maine 0.929
South Dakota
Wisconsin
25 Pennsylvania 0.928
26 Florida 0.925
27 Montana 0.924
28 Iowa 0.923
29 Delaware 0.922
30 Kansas 0.921
31 Idaho 0.916
32 Michigan 0.913
33 Nevada 0.910
34 North Carolina 0.908
Ohio
36 Texas 0.907
37 Arizona 0.906
38 Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 0.905
39 Missouri 0.904
40 Indiana 0.906
— Guam[2] 0.901 (2017)
41 South Carolina 0.894
— U.S. Virgin Islands[2] 0.894 (2017)
42 Tennessee 0.893
43 Oklahoma 0.892
44 New Mexico 0.884
45 Louisiana 0.881
46 Arkansas 0.880
47 Kentucky 0.879
— Puerto Rico[3] ~0.879 (2022)
48 Alabama 0.877
— Northern Mariana Islands[2] 0.875 (2017)
49 West Virginia 0.870
50 Mississippi 0.858
— American Samoa[2] 0.827 (2017)

Notes

  1. ^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2022.

References

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
  2. ^ a b c d "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu. May 5, 2020.
  3. ^ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.

See also

List of countries by Human Development Index

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