List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

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This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan). The subnational and national average figures for PRC/ROC division are mainly derived from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at Radboud University. The index did not cover Macau, a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of Mainland China are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China which calculated by the annual UNDP Human Development Report is exclusively applied to mainland only.

List of administrative divisions by HDI[edit]

Administrative divisions of the Mainland China and Taiwan by Human Development Index (2019).
  Very high (≥ 0.800)
  High (0.700 – 0.799)
  Medium (0.550 – 0.699)

The Subnational Human Development Database (2021 data)[edit]

Rank Provincial-level division / National average HDI (2021) [1] Comparable countries
Very high human development
 Hong Kong[a] 0.952 Australia (0.951)
 Republic of China (Taiwan)[b] 0.926[c] Japan; Republic of Korea (0.925)
 Macau[a] 0.922(2019)[d] United States (0.921)
1 Beijing 0.907 Spain (0.905)
2 Shanghai 0.880 Poland (0.876)
3 Tianjin 0.844 Hungary (0.846)
4 Jiangsu 0.810 Trinidad and Tobago (0.810)
5 Zhejiang 0.801 Mauritius (0.802)
High human development
6 Guangdong 0.799 Thailand (0.800)
7 Liaoning 0.780 Bosnia and Herzegovina (0.780)
8 Inner Mongolia 0.777 Saint Kitts and Nevis (0.777)
9 Fujian 0.775 Iran (0.774)
Hubei
11 Chongqing 0.774 Iran (0.774)
12 Hainan 0.769 North Macedonia (0.770)
13 Shaanxi 0.768 Dominican Republic (0.767)
 People's Republic of China (Average)[e] 0.768 Dominican Republic (0.767)
14 Shandong 0.765 Cuba (0.764)
15 Hunan 0.762 Peru (0.762)
16 Shanxi 0.758 Mexico (0.758)
17 Jilin 0.751 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (0.751)
18 Henan 0.748 Maldives (0.747)
19 Jiangxi 0.747 Maldives (0.747)
20 Anhui 0.744 Tonga (0.745)
Hebei
22 Heilongjiang 0.743 Tonga (0.745)
23 Sichuan 0.740 Ecuador (0.740)
24 Xinjiang 0.738 Mongolia (0.739)
25 Guangxi 0.734 Tunisia, Egypt (0.731)
Ningxia
Medium human development
27 Yunnan 0.697 Philippines (0.699)
28 Qinghai 0.695 Botswana (0.693)
29 Gansu 0.693 Botswana (0.693)
30 Guizhou 0.690 Venezuela (0.691)
31 Tibet 0.614 Namibia (0.615)

Notes:

  1. ^ a b Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China.
  2. ^ Taiwan is under separate rule by the Republic of China as a de facto independent state since 1950, but is claimed by the People's Republic of China as a province. The ROC also claims the mainland as its constitutional-defined territory.[2]
  3. ^ The HDI annual report compiled by the UNDP does not include Taiwan because it is no longer a UN member state, and is neither included as part of the People's Republic of China by both of the UNDP and SHDI reports when calculating data for China.[3][1] Taiwan's Statistical Bureau calculated its HDI for 2021 to be 0.926 based on UNDP's 2010 methodology,[4][5] which would place Taiwan at 19th globally in 2021 within the 2022 UNDP report.[6][7]
  4. ^ Macao's HDI is not included in the SHDI database or any UNDP annual report. According to the 2021 annual report published by Statistics and Census Service of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, the HDI for Macau was 0.922 in 2019.[8]
  5. ^ Figures refer to mainland China only.[9]

Trend[edit]

Legend

Very High human development

  0.900 and above
  0.850–0.899
  0.800–0.849

High human development

  0.750–0.799
  0.700–0.749

Medium human development

  0.650–0.699
  0.600–0.649
  0.550–0.599

  Data unavailable
Legend

Very High human development

  0.900–0.949

High human development

  0.850–0.899
  0.800–0.849

Medium human development

  0.750–0.799
  0.700–0.749
  0.650–0.699
  0.600–0.649
  0.550–0.599
  0.500–0.549

Low human development

  0.450–0.499
  0.400–0.449
  0.350–0.399
  Data unavailable

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Human Development Indices (5.0)- China". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Taiwan Country Profile". World Affairs Journal. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  3. ^ "Human Development Report 2020: Reader's Guide". United Nation Development Program. 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  4. ^ "What is the human development index (HDI)? How are relevant data queried?" (PDF). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  5. ^ "人類發展指數(Human Development Index, HDI)" (PDF) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). 6 January 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  6. ^ "國情統計通報(第 195 號)" (PDF). Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). 14 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  7. ^ "National Statistics, Republic of China (Taiwan)". Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC). 14 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Macau in Figures, 2021". 澳門統計暨普查局(DSEC). p. 4. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
  9. ^ "Human Development Report 2020: Reader's Guide". United Nation Development Program. 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

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