List of governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index

Map of governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index in 2017.
Legend:

  0.700 – 0.799

  0.600 – 0.699

This is a list of the governorates of Egypt by Human Development Index as of 2025 with data for the year 2023. ^[1]

Rank	Governorate	HDI (2023)
Very high human development
1	Port Said	0.822
2	Suez	0.808
3	Alexandria	0.805
4	Cairo	0.803
High human development
5	Damietta	0.779
6	Monufia	0.774
7	Dakahlia	0.771
8	Ismailia	0.770
9	Gharbia	0.764
10	Frontier governorates ( Red Sea, New Valley, Matruh, North Sinai, South Sinai)	0.761
11	Qalyubia	0.759
12	Kafr El Sheikh	0.757
13	Giza	0.756
–	Egypt (average)	0.754
14	Sharqia	0.753
15	Aswan	0.748
16	Beheira	0.739
17	Qena (with Luxor)	0.732
18	Faiyum	0.723
19	Beni Suef	0.720
20	Minya	0.713
21	Sohag	0.709
Medium human development
22	Asyut	0.699

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Table - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.