List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank some area by level of "human development" and separate developed ( very High development), developing (High and Medium development), and underdeveloped (Low development) areas. The statistics is composed from data on life expectancy, education and per-capita GNI (as an indicator of standard of living) collected at the national level.

Administrative units by Human Development Index

This is a list of provinces and administrative territories of Pakistan in order of their Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2024.

This map shows the H.D.I. level of each Pakistani subdivision in 2024.

Rank	Region	HDI (2024) [1]
High-Very High
1	Islamabad (ICT)	> 0.799
High Medium
2	Azad Jammu and Kashmir	0.781
3	Punjab	0.762
Medium
–	Pakistan	0.699
4	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0.650
5	Sindh	0.645
6	Gilgit-Baltistan	0.631
Low
7	Balochistan	0.444

Historical Trend

Administrative Unit	HDI[ citation needed ]
	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2023	2024
Islamabad	0.498	0.525	0.552	0.610	0.663	0.676	0.646	0.656	> .0799
AJK	0.481	0.505	0.531	0.584	0.592	0.592	0.582	0.600	0.781
Gilgit-Baltistan	0.417	0.435	0.455	0.498	0.508	0.546	0.577	0.586	0.631
Punjab	0.384	0.403	0.422	0.464	0.498	0.534	0.542	0.551	0.762
Sindh	0.383	0.403	0.424	0.468	0.494	0.514	0.510	0.518	0.645
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0.387	0.405	0.424	0.466	0.489	0.506	0.507	0.515	0.650
Balochistan	0.375	0.393	0.412	0.453	0.443	0.448	0.457	0.464	0.444
Pakistan	0.396	0.415	0.436	0.480	0.500	0.527	0.536	0.544	0.699

See also

• Education in Pakistan
• Demographics of Pakistan
• Economy of Pakistan
• Health in Pakistan
• List of Pakistani provinces by gross domestic product

References

1. "Doing Digital for Development" (PDF). The United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-08-04. Retrieved 2026-03-06.

Further reading

• UNDP Pakistan (2017). "Fact Sheet 'Uneashing the potential of a young Pakistan'" (PDF). National Human Development Report 2025. United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2023.

External links

• UN Development Programme Human Development Reports