List of French regions by Human Development Index

This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2023.^[1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside.

Rank	Pre-2016 region	Region since 2016	HDI (2023)
Very high human development
1	Île-de-France		0.960
2	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.930
3	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur		0.921
–	France		0.920
4	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie	0.920
5	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.914
6	Pays de la Loire		0.912
7	Alsace	Grand Est	0.910
8	Brittany		0.909
9	Languedoc-Roussillon	Occitanie	0.905
10	Upper Normandy	Normandy	0.902
11	Poitou-Charentes	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.901
12	Auvergne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.899
13	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Hauts-de-France	0.895
14	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.890
15	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.889
	Limousin	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	Centre-Val de Loire		0.888
18	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est	0.885
19	Lower Normandy	Normandy	0.884
20	Lorraine	Grand Est	0.881
21	Picardy	Hauts-de-France	0.877
22	Corsica		0.875
23	Guadeloupe		0.872
24	Martinique		0.860
25	Réunion		0.856
High human development
26	French Guiana		0.820
27	Mayotte		0.800

Map of French regions and overseas territories by HDI in 2017.
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