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 2018
Caption:
  > 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. All U.S. states and territories have a very high (greater than 0.800) HDI.

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
 New York
9  New Jersey 0.943
10  Maryland 0.950
11  California 0.941
12  Virginia 0.939
13  Oregon 0.938
 United States
14  Wyoming 0.936
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  Texas 0.912
34  Nevada 0.910
35  North Carolina 0.908
 Ohio
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)
—  Puerto Rico 0.897[citation needed]
41  South Carolina 0.900
—  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
48  Alabama 0.877
—  Northern Mariana Islands[2] 0.875 (2017)
49  West Virginia 0.873
50  Mississippi 0.864
—  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. May 5, 2020.

See also

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List of countries by Human Development Index

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