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

This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, territory, and federal district according to the UN.


Rank	State, federal district, or territory	HDI (2023) ^{[note 1]}^[1]
1	Massachusetts	0.956
1	New Hampshire	0.956
3	Colorado	0.952
3	Washington	0.952
5	Minnesota	0.951
6	Connecticut	0.950
—	District of Columbia	0.947
7	Hawaii	0.947
8	Vermont	0.945
9	New Jersey	0.943
10	Maryland	0.942
11	Virginia	0.939
12	Oregon	0.938
	United States	0.938
13	New York	0.937
14	Wyoming	0.936
15	California	0.935
16	North Dakota	0.934
16	Rhode Island	0.934
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	Nevada	0.910
34	North Carolina	0.908
34	Ohio	0.908
36	Texas	0.907
37	Arizona	0.906
38	Georgia	0.905
39	Missouri	0.904
40	Indiana	0.906
—	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^[3]	~0.879 (2022)
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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^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2022.

References

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^ "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.

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