List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan). The subnational and national average figures for the PRC/ROC division are mainly derived from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at Radboud University. The index does not cover Macau, a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of Mainland China are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China, which is calculated by the annual UNDP Human Development Report, is exclusively applied to the mainland.

List of administrative divisions by HDI

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Administrative divisions of mainland China and Taiwan by Human Development Index (2022).
  Very high (≥ 0.800)
  High (0.700 – 0.799)
  Medium (0.600 – 0.699)

The Subnational Human Development Database (2022 data)

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Rank Provincial-level division / National average HDI (2022)[1] Comparable country[2]
Very high human development
  Hong Kong[a] 0.956   Iceland
  Republic of China (Taiwan)[b] 0.925[c]   Austria,
  Slovenia
  Macau[a] 0.925[d]
1 Beijing 0.905   Italy
2 Shanghai 0.895   Czechia
3 Tianjin 0.858   Chile
4 Jiangsu 0.827   Romania
5 Zhejiang 0.814   Georgia,
  Trinidad and Tobago
6 Guangdong 0.813
7 Fujian 0.804   Serbia,
  Thailand
High human development
8 Inner Mongolia 0.798   Bulgaria,
  Palau
9 Chongqing 0.795   Mauritius
10 Liaoning 0.794   Grenada
Hubei
12 Shaanxi 0.792
13 Shanxi 0.791   Grenada,
  Albania
14 Shandong 0.789   Albania
  People's Republic of China (Average)[e] 0.788
15 Hainan 0.781   Mexico
Hunan
17 Jilin 0.777   Bosnia and Herzegovina
18 Heilongjiang 0.769   St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
  Dominican Republic
19 Jiangxi 0.768   Dominican Republic
20 Anhui 0.767
21 Ningxia 0.764   Cuba
22 Xinjiang 0.762   Maldives,
  Peru
Sichuan
Hebei
25 Henan 0.760   Azerbaijan,
  Brazil
26 Guangxi 0.751   Libya
27 Yunnan 0.729   Fiji
28 Guizhou 0.725   Saint Lucia
29 Gansu 0.722   Lebanon
30 Qinghai 0.719   South Africa
Medium human development
31 Tibet 0.648   Equatorial Guinea

Notes:

  1. ^ a b Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China.
  2. ^ Taiwan is under separate rule by the Republic of China as a de facto independent state since 1950, but is claimed by the People's Republic of China as a province. The ROC also claims the mainland as its constitutional-defined territory.[3]
  3. ^ The HDI annual report compiled by the UNDP does not include Taiwan because it is no longer a UN member state, and is neither included as part of the People's Republic of China by both of the UNDP and SHDI reports when calculating data for China.[4][1] Taiwan's Statistical Bureau calculated its HDI for 2022 to be 0.925 based on UNDP's 2010 methodology,[5][6] which would place Taiwan at 24th globally in 2022 within the 2024 UNDP report.
  4. ^ Macao's HDI is not included in the SHDI database or any UNDP annual report. According to the 2024 annual report published by Statistics and Census Service of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, the HDI for Macau was predicted at 0.925 in 2022.[7]
  5. ^ Figures refer to mainland China only.[8]

Trend

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Legend

Very High human development

  0.900 and above
  0.850–0.899
  0.800–0.849

High human development

  0.750–0.799
  0.700–0.749

Medium human development

  0.650–0.699
  0.600–0.649
  0.550–0.599

  Data unavailable
Legend

Very High human development

  0.900–0.949

High human development

  0.850–0.899
  0.800–0.849

Medium human development

  0.750–0.799
  0.700–0.749
  0.650–0.699
  0.600–0.649
  0.550–0.599
  0.500–0.549

Low human development

  0.450–0.499
  0.400–0.449
  0.350–0.399
  Data unavailable

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Human Development Indices (8.0)- China". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Human Development Report 2023/2024" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme.
  3. ^ "Taiwan Country Profile". World Affairs Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  4. ^ "Human Development Report 2020: Reader's Guide". United Nation Development Program. 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  5. ^ "What is the human development index (HDI)? How are relevant data queried?" (PDF). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  6. ^ "人類發展指數(Human Development Index, HDI)" (PDF) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). 6 January 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Macau in Figures, 2024". 澳門統計暨普查局(DSEC). p. 4. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  8. ^ "Human Development Report 2023-24: Reader's Guide" (PDF). United Nation Development Program. 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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