List of Mexican states by Human Development Index

Mexican States by HDI, 2019.

  0.800 – 1.000 (Very High)

  0.700 - 0.799 (High)

The following table presents a listing of Mexico's 32 federal states, ranked in order of their Human Development Index, as reported by the United Nations Development Programme with data from 1990 to 2017. In 2019, only Mexico City and five states – specifically, the five highest on the chart below – had very high human development. The remaining states, aside from Chiapas, all had high human development. Between 2019 and 2021, the five highest states, but not Mexico City, all dropped below the 0.800 threshold, while three other states near the bottom dropped below 0.700.

Mexican States

Rank	Federal Entity	HDI (2021)
Very high human development
1	Mexico City	0.815
High human development
2	Baja California	0.788
3	Nuevo León	0.786
4	Baja California Sur	0.783
5	Sinaloa	0.782
6	Sonora	0.781
7	Coahuila	0.777
8	Aguascalientes	0.775
9	Tamaulipas	0.770
10	Jalisco	0.768
11	Colima	0.767
12	Querétaro
13	Chihuahua	0.763
14	State of Mexico
15	Quintana Roo	0.760
–	Mexico (average)	0.758
16	Morelos	0.756
17	Nayarit	0.755
18	Tabasco	0.752
19	Yucatán
20	Tlaxcala	0.750
21	Campeche	0.749
22	Durango
23	Zacatecas	0.744
24	San Luis Potosí	0.740
25	Hidalgo	0.738
26	Guanajuato	0.736
27	Michoacán	0.724
28	Veracruz	0.723
29	Puebla	0.721
Medium human development
30	Guerrero	0.694
31	Oaxaca	0.689
32	Chiapas	0.677

See also

• List of Mexican states by poverty rate
• List of Mexican states by unemployment