List of German states by Human Development Index

This is a list of German states by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2022.^[1]

Rank	State	HDI (2022)
Very high human development
1	Hamburg	0.975
2	Berlin	0.967
3	Baden-Württemberg	0.961
4	Bavaria	0.958
5	Bremen	0.954
	Hesse
—	Germany (average)	0.950
7	North Rhine-Westphalia	0.946
8	Saxony	0.944
9	Rhineland-Palatinate	0.938
10	Lower Saxony	0.936
11	Saarland	0.934
12	Schleswig-Holstein	0.929
13	Thuringia	0.928
14	Brandenburg	0.926
15	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.922
16	Saxony-Anhalt	0.921

Map of German states by HDI in 2018.

  > 0.949

  0.949 – 0.930

  0.929 – 0.910

  < 0.909

Development 1995–2015

Human Development Index of German states since 1995.

State	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	Increase 1995–2015
Hamburg	0.874	0.896	0.934	0.953	0.964	9.0%
Baden-Württemberg	0.847	0.872	0.905	0.926	0.941	9.4%
Bremen	0.853	0.879	0.910	0.930	0.938	8.5%
Hesse	0.849	0.875	0.908	0.926	0.935	8.6%
Bavaria	0.835	0.861	0.894	0.916	0.933	9.8%
Berlin	0.840	0.866	0.897	0.919	0.932	9.2%
North Rhine-Westphalia	0.834	0.860	0.891	0.910	0.924	9.0%
Saxony	0.830	0.855	0.887	0.904	0.916	8.6%
Rhineland-Palatinate	0.823	0.849	0.879	0.901	0.914	9.1%
Saarland	0.824	0.849	0.880	0.901	0.914	9.0%
Lower Saxony	0.819	0.844	0.875	0.896	0.912	9.3%
Schleswig-Holstein	0.820	0.846	0.877	0.893	0.907	8.7%
Thuringia	0.815	0.847	0.873	0.892	0.906	9.1%
Brandenburg	0.811	0.836	0.868	0.888	0.902	9.1%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.806	0.831	0.863	0.884	0.897	9.1%
Saxony-Anhalt	0.807	0.832	0.862	0.883	0.895	8.8%
Germany	0.834	0.860	0.892	0.912	0.926	9.2%

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index