List of French regions by Human Development Index

This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2022.^[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 (2022)
Very high human development
1	Île-de-France		0.956
2	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.923
3	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur		0.912
–	France		0.910
4	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie	0.910
5	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.907
6	Pays de la Loire		0.905
7	Alsace	Grand Est	0.904
8	Brittany		0.903
9	Languedoc-Roussillon	Occitanie	0.893
10	Upper Normandy	Normandy	0.892
11	Poitou-Charentes	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.891
12	Auvergne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.889
13	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Hauts-de-France	0.888
14	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.887
15	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.886
	Limousin	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	Centre-Val de Loire		0.885
18	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est	0.883
19	Lower Normandy	Normandy	0.881
20	Lorraine	Grand Est	0.878
21	Picardy	Hauts-de-France	0.870
22	Corsica		0.864
23	Guadeloupe		0.860
24	Martinique		0.854
25	Réunion		0.848
High human development
26	French Guiana		0.790
27	Mayotte		0.780

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

  > 0.900

  0.880 - 0.900

  0.860 - 0.880

  0.800 - 0.860

  < 0.800

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org.