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] |
|---|---|---|
| Very High Human Development | ||
| 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. May 5, 2020.
- ^ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.
