List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score

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Map of the U.S. states by Human Development Index in 2018
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  0.900 – 0.920
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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 (2023)
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1 Massachusetts 0.956
New Hampshire
3 Colorado 0.952
Washington
5 Minnesota 0.951
6 Connecticut 0.950
District of Columbia 0.947
7 Hawaii
8 Vermont 0.945
New York
9 New Jersey 0.943
10 Maryland 0.950
11 California 0.941
12 Virginia 0.939
13 Oregon 0.938
United States
14 Wyoming 0.936
16 North Dakota 0.934
Rhode Island
18 Illinois 0.932
19 Alaska 0.931
Nebraska
Utah
22 Maine 0.929
South Dakota
Wisconsin
25 Pennsylvania 0.928
26 Florida 0.925
27 Montana 0.924
28 Iowa 0.923
29 Delaware 0.922
30 Kansas 0.921
31 Idaho 0.916
32 Michigan 0.913
33 Texas 0.912
34 Nevada 0.910
35 North Carolina 0.908
Ohio
37 Arizona 0.906
38 Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 0.905
39 Missouri 0.904
40 Indiana 0.906
Guam[2] 0.901 (2017)
Puerto Rico 0.897[citation needed]
41 South Carolina 0.900
U.S. Virgin Islands[2] 0.894 (2017)
42 Tennessee 0.893
43 Oklahoma 0.892
44 New Mexico 0.884
45 Louisiana 0.881
46 Arkansas 0.880
47 Kentucky 0.879
48 Alabama 0.877
Northern Mariana Islands[2] 0.875 (2017)
49 West Virginia 0.873
50 Mississippi 0.864
American Samoa[2] 0.827 (2017)

Notes

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  1. ^ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2022.

References

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  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
  2. ^ a b c d "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu. May 5, 2020.

See also

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List of countries by Human Development Index