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

List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score should not be confused with List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index.

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 (2022)
^[1]

1		0.956
3		0.952
5		0.951
6		0.950
—		0.947
7
8		0.945
9		0.943
10		0.942
11		0.939
12		0.938
13		0.937
14		0.936
15		0.935
16		0.934
18		0.932
19		0.931
22		0.929
25		0.928
—	United States (average)	0.927
26		0.925
27		0.924
28		0.923
29		0.922
30		0.921
31		0.916
32		0.913
33		0.910
34		0.908
36		0.907
37		0.906
38	Georgia	0.905
39		0.904
40		0.903
—	Guam^[2]	0.901 (2017)
41		0.894
—		0.894 (2017)
42		0.893
43		0.892
44		0.884
45		0.881
46		0.880
47		0.879
—	Puerto Rico	~0.879 (2022)^[3]
48		0.877
—	Northern Mariana Islands	0.875 (2017)
49		0.870
50		0.858
—	American Samoa	0.827 (2017)

Notes and References

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