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. ^[1]

As of 2022, five states plus Mexico City are classified as having "very high human development." The remaining states, save for Chiapas (which was labeled as "medium human development"), are labeled as having "high human development."

Mexican States

Rank	Federal Entity	HDI (2022) [2]
Very high human development
1	Mexico City	0.839
2	Baja California	0.811
3	Nuevo León	0.809
4	Baja California Sur	0.806
5	Sinaloa	0.805
6	Sonora	0.804
High human development
7	Coahuila	0.799
8	Aguascalientes	0.798
9	Tamaulipas	0.793
10	Jalisco	0.790
11	Colima
12	Querétaro	0.789
13	Chihuahua	0.786
14	State of Mexico	0.785
15	Quintana Roo	0.782
–	Mexico (average)	0.781
16	Morelos	0.778
17	Nayarit	0.777
18	Tabasco	0.774
19	Yucatán
20	Tlaxcala	0.772
21	Campeche	0.771
22	Durango
23	Zacatecas	0.766
24	San Luis Potosí	0.761
25	Hidalgo	0.760
26	Guanajuato	0.758
27	Michoacán	0.745
28	Veracruz	0.744
29	Puebla	0.743
30	Guerrero	0.715
31	Oaxaca	0.709
Medium human development
32	Chiapas	0.697

See also

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

References

1. Permanyer, Iñaki; Smits, Jeroen (31 May 2018). "The Subnational Human Development Index: Moving beyond country-level averages". Human Development Reports. United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
2. "Mexico - Sub-national HDI". Global Data Lab. Radboud University Institute for Management Research. Retrieved 26 Sep 2024.