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

Not to be confused with List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index.

Map of the U.S. states by Human Development Index in 2018

  > 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. All U.S. states and territories have a very high (greater than 0.800) HDI.

Rank	State, federal district, or territory	HDI (2023)
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	0.905
39	Missouri	0.904
40	Indiana	0.906
—	Guam	0.901 (2017)
—	Puerto Rico	0.897
41	South Carolina	0.900
—	U.S. Virgin Islands	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	0.875 (2017)
49	West Virginia	0.873
50	Mississippi	0.864
—	American Samoa	0.827 (2017)

See also

List of countries by Human Development Index