List of Indian states and union territories by Human Development Index

This article lists the Human Development Index (HDI) rating of the States and union territories of India. HDI is a composite index that takes into consideration health, education and income.

Map of the Indian states and territories by HDI in 2017 (published in 2018).

The national average HDI for India in 2008 was 0.467.^[1] By 2010, its average HDI had risen to 0.519.^[2][3] UNDP, the sponsor of the Human Development Index methodology since 1990, reported India's HDI to be 0.554 for 2012,^[4] an 18% increase over its 2008 HDI. The United Nations declared India's HDI to be 0.586 in 2014,^[5] a 5.77% increase over 2012. As for the year 2018, HDI for India stood at 0.647.^[6][7][8]

List

This is a list of Indian states and union territories by Human Development Index as of 2019.^[9]

Rank	State/Union Territory	HDI (2019)
High human development
1	Kerala	0.782
2	Chandigarh	0.776
3	Goa	0.763
4	Lakshadweep	0.751
5	Delhi	0.746
6	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0.741
7	Puducherry	0.740
8	Himachal Pradesh	0.725
9	Punjab	0.724
10	Sikkim	0.717
11	Tamil Nadu	0.709
12	Daman and Diu	0.708
13	Haryana	0.708
14	Mizoram	0.704
Median human development
15	Maharashtra	0.697
16	Manipur	0.697
17	Jammu and Kashmir	0.688
18	Uttarakhand	0.683
19	Karnataka	0.683
20	Nagaland	0.679
21	Gujarat	0.672
22	Telangana	0.669
23	Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0.663
24	Arunachal Pradesh	0.661
25	Tripura	0.658
26	Meghalaya	0.656
27	Andhra Pradesh	0.649
–	India (average)	0.646
28	West Bengal	0.641
29	Rajasthan	0.628
30	Assam	0.613
31	Chhattisgarh	0.611
32	Odisha	0.605
33	Madhya Pradesh	0.603
34	Jharkhand	0.598
35	Uttar Pradesh	0.594
36	Bihar	0.574

Trends by UNDP reports

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Indian states since 1990 (2019 revision).^[10]

State	HDI
	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2019
Northern India
Chandigarh	0.627	0.636	0.633	0.660	0.648	0.732	0.776
New Delhi	0.577	0.619	0.663	0.690	0.709	0.728	0.746
Haryana	0.465	0.504	0.547	0.589	0.633	0.684	0.708
Himachal Pradesh	0.478	0.528	0.587	0.643	0.666	0.702	0.725
Jammu and Kashmir	0.493	0.510	0.526	0.586	0.640	0.672	0.688
Madhya Pradesh	0.403	0.429	0.455	0.497	0.535	0.581	0.603
Punjab	0.496	0.535	0.577	0.614	0.656	0.701	0.724
Uttar Pradesh	0.393	0.426	0.459	0.500	0.532	0.572	0.594
Uttarakhand	0.621	0.629	0.624	0.652	0.638	0.661	0.683
Western India
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	0.666	0.677	0.678	0.706	0.694	0.661	0.663
Daman and Diu	0.645	0.657	0.660	0.685	0.676	0.688	0.708
Goa	0.552	0.581	0.613	0.671	0.737	0.753	0.763
Gujarat	0.469	0.495	0.525	0.571	0.604	0.649	0.672
Maharashtra	0.493	0.524	0.556	0.601	0.644	0.678	0.697
Rajasthan	0.401	0.433	0.465	0.507	0.546	0.602	0.628
Eastern India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0.678	0.689	0.691	0.718	0.707	0.720	0.741
West Bengal	0.439	0.471	0.503	0.537	0.571	0.617	0.641
Bihar	0.376	0.404	0.433	0.467	0.512	0.554	0.574
Chhattisgarh	0.554	0.561	0.557	0.583	0.570	0.590	0.611
Jharkhand	0.554	0.562	0.558	0.584	0.571	0.580	0.598
Odisha	0.397	0.426	0.455	0.491	0.533	0.582	0.605
Northeastern India
Assam	0.408	0.444	0.485	0.528	0.564	0.595	0.613
Arunachal Pradesh	0.436	0.469	0.500	0.532	0.639	0.660	0.661
Manipur	0.494	0.525	0.557	0.596	0.681	0.692	0.697
Meghalaya	0.455	0.467	0.473	0.530	0.619	0.646	0.656
Mizoram	0.526	0.547	0.568	0.629	0.686	0.695	0.704
Nagaland	0.533	0.533	0.521	0.555	0.660	0.677	0.679
Sikkim	0.538	0.545	0.546	0.590	0.632	0.690	0.717
Tripura	0.444	0.486	0.529	0.559	0.607	0.641	0.658
Southern India
Andhra Pradesh	0.422	0.448	0.475	0.528	0.578	0.627	0.649
Karnataka	0.442	0.477	0.515	0.564	0.604	0.657	0.683
Kerala	0.545	0.569	0.598	0.679	0.716	0.757	0.782
Lakshadweep	0.687	0.699	0.700	0.728	0.716	0.730	0.751
Puducherry	0.713	0.724	0.725	0.754	0.742	0.729	0.740
Tamil Nadu	0.470	0.503	0.540	0.598	0.646	0.688	0.709
Telangana	0.616	0.624	0.622	0.648	0.636	0.649	0.669
India	0.429	0.461	0.494	0.536	0.579	0.624	0.646

Trend analysis by Indian National Development Reports

Compared with the previous Indian National Human Development Reports and the latest state-level government statistical report, India has significantly improved its HDI in all of its administrative subdivisions:

Legend
Very High/High Human Development Index   0.850–0.899   0.800–0.849   0.750–0.799   0.700–0.749	Medium human development index   0.650–0.699   0.600–0.649   0.550–0.599   0.500–0.549	Low human development index   0.450–0.499   0.400–0.449   0.350–0.399   0.300–0.349   0.250–0.299   ≤0.250	Lack of information

 

Human Development Index map for Indian states in 2006, as calculated by Government of India and UNDP India.^[11]

This is a list of Indian states by their respective Human Development Index (HDI), as of 2008.^[1] Kerala stands first in Human Development Index among the states in India.

• 1981 to 2011 Human development index in India
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  National Human Development Report 1981
  (1981 data)

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  National Human Development Report 1991
  (1991 data)

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  National Human Development Report 2001
  (2001 data)

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  National Human Development Report 2011
  (2007–2008 data)

Consumption-based HDI

There are many ways to calculate HDI, and its calculation is sensitive to base data and assumptions. Using another approach, UNDP India and Government of India calculated the HDI nationwide average to be 0.605 in 2006.^[12] This data was published by the Indian Government.^[1] Note that the 2007-2008 HDI values in the table below is not based on income as is the UNDP standard practice for global comparisons, but on estimated consumption expenditure – an assumption which underestimates the HDI compared to the actual value.^[13] Further, data was unavailable for the following union territories: Chandigarh, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.^[14][15]

Consumption-based HDI^[16] (2007–08) Indian states only

Rank	State/Union Territory	HDI
1	Kerala	0.810
2	Delhi	0.750
3	Himachal Pradesh	0.652
4	Goa	0.617
5	Punjab	0.605
6	Northeast India	0.573
7	Maharashtra	0.572
8	Tamil Nadu	0.570
9	Haryana	0.552
10	Jammu and Kashmir	0.542
11	Gujarat	0.527
12	Karnataka	0.519
–	National average	0.513
13	West Bengal	0.492
14	Uttarakhand	0.490
15	Andhra Pradesh	0.473
17	Rajasthan	0.434
18	Uttar Pradesh	0.380
19	Jharkhand	0.376
20	Madhya Pradesh	0.375
21	Bihar	0.367
22	Odisha	0.362
23	Chhattisgarh	0.358

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