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.
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| Rank |
State,
federal district,
or territory |
HDI (2022)
[note 1][1] |
Comparable Country[2] |
|---|
| 1 |
 Massachusetts |
0.956 |
 Hong Kong |
 New Hampshire |
| 3 |
 Colorado |
0.952 |
 Denmark,
 Sweden |
 Washington |
| 5 |
 Minnesota |
0.951 |
Denmark,
Sweden,
 Germany,
 Ireland |
| 6 |
 Connecticut |
0.950 |
Germany,
Ireland |
| — |
 District of Columbia |
0.947 |
 Australia,
 Netherlands |
| 7 |
 Hawaii |
| 8 |
 Vermont |
0.945 |
| 9 |
 New Jersey |
0.943 |
 Belgium,
 Finland,
 Liechtenstein |
| 10 |
 Maryland |
0.942 |
| 11 |
 Virginia |
0.939 |
 New Zealand |
| 12 |
 Oregon |
0.938 |
New Zealand,
 United Arab Emirates |
| 13 |
 New York |
0.937 |
United Arab Emirates |
| 14 |
 Wyoming |
0.936 |
United Arab Emirates,
 Canada |
| 15 |
 California |
0.935 |
Canada |
| 16 |
 North Dakota |
0.934 |
 Rhode Island |
| 18 |
 Illinois |
0.932 |
Canada,
 South Korea |
| 19 |
 Alaska |
0.931 |
South Korea |
 Nebraska |
 Utah |
| 22 |
 Maine |
0.929 |
 South Dakota |
 Wisconsin |
| 25 |
 Pennsylvania |
0.928 |
South Korea,
 Luxembourg |
| — |
 United States (average) |
0.927 |
Luxembourg |
| 26 |
 Florida |
0.925 |
 Austria,
 Slovenia |
| 27 |
 Montana |
0.924 |
| 28 |
 Iowa |
0.923 |
Austria,
Slovenia,
 Japan |
| 29 |
 Delaware |
0.922 |
Japan |
| 30 |
 Kansas |
0.921 |
| 31 |
 Idaho |
0.916 |
 Israel,
 Malta |
| 32 |
 Michigan |
0.913 |
Israel,
Malta,
 Spain |
| 33 |
 Nevada |
0.910 |
 France |
| 34 |
 North Carolina |
0.908 |
 Cyprus |
 Ohio |
| 36 |
 Texas |
0.907 |
| 37 |
 Arizona |
0.906 |
 Italy |
| 38 |
 Georgia |
0.905 |
| 39 |
 Missouri |
0.904 |
| 40 |
 Indiana |
0.903 |
| — |
 Guam[3] |
0.901 (2017) |
 Estonia |
| 41 |
 South Carolina |
0.894 |
 Czechia,
 Greece |
| — |
 U.S. Virgin Islands[3] |
0.894 (2017) |
| 42 |
 Tennessee |
0.893 |
Greece |
| 43 |
 Oklahoma |
0.892 |
| 44 |
 New Mexico |
0.884 |
 Andorra |
| 45 |
 Louisiana |
0.881 |
 Poland |
| 46 |
 Arkansas |
0.880 |
Poland,
 Latvia,
 Lithuania |
| 47 |
 Kentucky |
0.879 |
Latvia,
Lithuania |
| — |
 Puerto Rico |
~0.879 (2022)[4] |
| 48 |
 Alabama |
0.877 |
 Croatia |
| — |
 Northern Mariana Islands[3] |
0.875 (2017) |
 Qatar,
 Saudi Arabia |
| 49 |
 West Virginia |
0.870 |
 San Marino |
| 50 |
 Mississippi |
0.858 |
 Chile |
| — |
 American Samoa[3] |
0.827 (2017) |
 Romania |
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Map of the U.S. states by Human Development Index in 2018Caption:
> 0.940
0.921 – 0.940
0.900 – 0.920
< 0.900
In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2022.
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