List of Mexican states by Human Development Index

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 1990-2017.[1] In 2019, only Mexico City and 5 Mexican states had very high human development, specifically the five highest states in the chart below. The rest of the states, aside from Chiapas, all had high human development. Between 2019 and 2021, the five highest states, but not Mexico City, all dropped below the 0.800 threshold, while three other states near the bottom dropped below 0.700.

Mexican States by HDI, 2019.
  0.800 – 1.000 (Very High)
  0.700 - 0.799 (High)

Mexican States edit

RankFederal EntityHDI
(2021)[2]
Very high human development
1  Mexico City0.815
High human development
2  Baja California0.788
3  Nuevo León0.786
4  Baja California Sur0.783
5  Sinaloa0.782
6  Sonora0.781
7  Coahuila de Zaragoza0.777
8  Aguascalientes0.775
9  Tamaulipas0.770
10  Jalisco0.768
11  Colima0.767
12  Querétaro
13  Chihuahua0.763
14  State of Mexico
15  Quintana Roo0.760
 Mexico (average)0.758
16  Morelos0.756
17  Nayarit0.755
18  Tabasco0.752
19  Yucatán
20  Tlaxcala0.750
21  Campeche0.749
22  Durango
23  Zacatecas0.744
24  San Luis Potosí0.740
25  Hidalgo0.738
26  Guanajuato0.736
27  Michoacán de Ocampo0.724
28  Veracruz0.723
29  Puebla0.721
Medium human development
30  Guerrero0.694
31  Oaxaca0.689
32  Chiapas0.677

See also edit

References edit

  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 11 Feb 2023.