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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 2022
  > 0.945
  0.921 – 0.945
  0.900 – 0.920
  < 0.900

This article lists the Human Development Index rating of each U.S. state, territory, and federal district according to the UN.

Rank State,
federal district,
or territory		 HDI (2023)
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1 Massachusetts 0.961
New Hampshire
3 Minnesota 0.960
4 Colorado 0.958
5 Hawaii 0.957
Washington
7 Connecticut 0.955
Vermont
— District of Columbia 0.952
9 Oregon 0.949
10 New Jersey 0.948
Virginia
12 Maryland 0.947
13 North Dakota 0.945
Rhode Island
15 New York 0.942
Utah
17 Nebraska 0.941
Wyoming
19 Alaska 0.940
California
Illinois
Maine
South Dakota
24 Wisconsin 0.939
25 Pennsylvania 0.938
United States
26 Florida 0.935
27 Iowa 0.934
Montana
29 Delaware 0.933
30 Kansas 0.931
31 Idaho 0.927
32 Michigan 0.923
33 Nevada 0.921
34 Ohio 0.919
35 North Carolina 0.918
36 Arizona 0.917
Texas
38 Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia 0.915
Missouri
40 Indiana 0.913
41 South Carolina 0.904
Tennessee
43 Oklahoma 0.902
— Guam[2] 0.901 (2017)
44 New Mexico 0.895
— U.S. Virgin Islands[2] 0.894 (2017)
45 Louisiana 0.892
46 Arkansas 0.890
Kentucky
48 Alabama 0.887
49 West Virginia 0.880
— Puerto Rico[3] ~0.879 (2022)
— Northern Mariana Islands[2] 0.875 (2017)
50 Mississippi 0.868
— American Samoa[2] 0.827 (2017)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ In this column, data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia is from 2023.

References

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  1. ↑ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "The Forgotten Isles: A Risk Assessment of the United States' Island Territories, 2008-2020" (PDF). sites.tufts.edu. May 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Socioeconomic Indicators - Puerto Rico"., Self-calculated and estimated.
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