List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score
This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, territory, and federal district according to the UN. All U.S. states and territories have a very high (greater than 0.800) HDI.
Rank | State, federal district, or territory | HDI (2021) [note 1][1] |
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1 | Massachusetts | 0.949 |
2 | Connecticut | 0.948 |
3 | Minnesota | 0.947 |
4 | New Hampshire | 0.943 |
New Jersey | ||
6 | Colorado | 0.942 |
— | District of Columbia | 0.940 |
7 | Hawaii | |
North Dakota | ||
Washington | ||
10 | New York | 0.938 |
11 | Maryland | 0.936 |
12 | Vermont | 0.935 |
13 | Nebraska | 0.933 |
14 | Wyoming | 0.932 |
15 | California | 0.931 |
16 | Alaska | 0.930 |
Iowa | ||
Oregon | ||
Utah | ||
Virginia | ||
21 | Delaware | 0.929 |
Illinois | ||
Wisconsin | ||
24 | South Dakota | 0.927 |
25 | Rhode Island | 0.925 |
26 | Pennsylvania | 0.923 |
27 | Kansas | 0.922 |
— | United States (average) | 0.921 |
28 | Maine | 0.917 |
29 | Montana | 0.916 |
30 | Ohio | 0.914 |
31 | Michigan | 0.913 |
32 | Florida | 0.911 |
Texas | ||
34 | Arizona | 0.908 |
35 | Idaho | 0.907 |
Indiana | ||
Missouri | ||
North Carolina | ||
39 | Georgia | 0.904 |
Nevada | ||
41 | New Mexico | 0.901 |
— | Guam (2017) [2] | |
42 | Oklahoma | 0.896 |
43 | Tennessee | 0.895 |
44 | South Carolina | 0.893 |
— | U.S. Virgin Islands (2017)[2] | 0.892 |
45 | Louisiana | 0.888 |
46 | Kentucky | 0.884 |
47 | Alabama | 0.881 |
Arkansas | ||
— | Puerto Rico | 0.880[3] |
49 | West Virginia | 0.877 |
— | Northern Mariana Islands (2017)[2] | 0.875 |
50 | Mississippi | 0.866 |
— | American Samoa (2017)[2] | 0.827 |
Notes
- ^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2021.
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