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.
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> 0.940
0.921 – 0.940
0.900 – 0.920
< 0.900
| Rank | State, federal district, or territory |
HDI (2022) [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 |
| 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.