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

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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)
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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 (U.S. state) 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

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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. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.