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

Rank	State, federal district, or territory	HDI (2021) [note 1][1]
1	Massachusetts	0.949
2	Connecticut	0.948
3	Minnesota	0.947
4	New Hampshire	0.943
	New Jersey
6	Colorado	0.942
—	District of Columbia	0.940
7	Hawaii
	North Dakota
	Washington
10	New York	0.938
11	Maryland	0.936
12	Vermont	0.935
13	Nebraska	0.933
14	Wyoming	0.932
15	California	0.931
16	Alaska	0.930
	Iowa
	Oregon
	Utah
	Virginia
21	Delaware	0.929
	Illinois
	Wisconsin
24	South Dakota	0.927
—	United States (average)	0.927
25	Rhode Island	0.925
26	Pennsylvania	0.923
27	Kansas	0.922
28	Maine	0.917
29	Montana	0.916
30	Ohio	0.914
31	Michigan	0.913
32	Florida	0.911
	Texas
34	Arizona	0.908
35	Idaho	0.907
	Indiana
	Missouri
	North Carolina
39	Georgia	0.904
	Nevada
41	New Mexico	0.901
—	Guam (2017) [2]
42	Oklahoma	0.896
43	Tennessee	0.895
44	South Carolina	0.893
—	U.S. Virgin Islands (2017)[2]	0.892
45	Louisiana	0.888
46	Kentucky	0.884
47	Alabama	0.881
	Arkansas
—	Puerto Rico	0.880[3]
49	West Virginia	0.877
—	Northern Mariana Islands (2017)[2]	0.875
50	Mississippi	0.866
—	American Samoa (2017)[2]	0.827

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:

  > 0.940

  0.921 – 0.940

  0.900 – 0.920

  < 0.900

Notes

1. In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2021.

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
2. "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu. 5 May 2020.
3. "Social Progress - Puerto Rico | Statista Market Forecast".