List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score
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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] |
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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 |
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 |
— | United States (average) | 0.927 |
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 | 0.905 |
39 | Missouri | 0.904 |
40 | Indiana | 0.903 |
— | 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 | ~0.879 (2022)[3] |
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
[edit]- ^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2022.
References
[edit]- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.