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

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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 2018
Caption:
  > 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, 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 (2022)
[note 1][1] 		Comparable Region[2]
1  Massachusetts 0.956  Hong Kong
 New Hampshire
3  Colorado 0.952  Denmark,
 Sweden
 Washington
5  Minnesota 0.951  Denmark,
 Sweden,
 Germany,
 Ireland
6  Connecticut 0.950  Germany,
 Ireland
—  District of Columbia 0.947  Australia,
 Netherlands
7  Hawaii
8  Vermont 0.945
9  New Jersey 0.943  Belgium,
 Finland,
 Liechtenstein
10  Maryland 0.942
11  Virginia 0.939  New Zealand
12  Oregon 0.938  New Zealand,
 United Arab Emirates
13  New York 0.937  United Arab Emirates
14  Wyoming 0.936  United Arab Emirates,
 Canada
15  California 0.935  Canada
16  North Dakota 0.934
 Rhode Island
18  Illinois 0.932  Canada,
 South Korea
19  Alaska 0.931  South Korea
 Nebraska
 Utah
22  Maine 0.929
 South Dakota
 Wisconsin
25  Pennsylvania 0.928  South Korea,
 Luxembourg
—  United States (average) 0.927  Luxembourg
26  Florida 0.925  Austria,
 Slovenia
27  Montana 0.924
28  Iowa 0.923  Austria,
 Slovenia,
 Japan
29  Delaware 0.922  Japan
30  Kansas 0.921
31  Idaho 0.916  Israel,
 Malta
32  Michigan 0.913  Israel,
 Malta,
 Spain
33  Nevada 0.910  France
34  North Carolina 0.908  Cyprus
 Ohio
36  Texas 0.907
37  Arizona 0.906  Italy
38 Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 0.905
39  Missouri 0.904
40  Indiana 0.903
—  Guam[3] 0.901 (2017)  Estonia
41  South Carolina 0.894  Czechia,
 Greece
—  U.S. Virgin Islands[3] 0.894 (2017)
42  Tennessee 0.893  Greece
43  Oklahoma 0.892
44  New Mexico 0.884  Andorra
45  Louisiana 0.881  Poland
46  Arkansas 0.880  Poland,
 Latvia,
 Lithuania
47  Kentucky 0.879  Latvia,
 Lithuania
—  Puerto Rico ~0.879 (2022)[4]
48  Alabama 0.877  Croatia
—  Northern Mariana Islands[3] 0.875 (2017)  Qatar,
 Saudi Arabia
49  West Virginia 0.870  San Marino
50  Mississippi 0.858  Chile
—  American Samoa[3] 0.827 (2017)  Romania

Notes

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

References

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  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
  2. ^ "Human Development Report 2023/2024" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme.
  3. ^ a b c d "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu. 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.
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