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

Rank	Federal Entity	HDI (2021)^[2]
Very high human development
1	Mexico City	0.815
2	Nuevo León	0.808
High human development
3	Baja California	0.788
4	Baja California Sur	0.783
5	Sinaloa	0.782
6	Sonora	0.781
7	Coahuila de Zaragoza	0.777
8	Aguascalientes	0.775
9	Tamaulipas	0.770
10	Jalisco	0.768
11	Colima	0.767
	Querétaro
13	Chihuahua	0.763
	State of Mexico
15	Quintana Roo	0.760
16	Morelos	0.756
17	Nayarit	0.755
18	Tabasco	0.752
	Yucatán
20	Tlaxcala	0.750
21	Campeche	0.749
	Durango
23	Zacatecas	0.744
24	San Luis Potosí	0.740
25	Hidalgo	0.738
26	Guanajuato	0.736
27	Michoacán de Ocampo	0.724
28	Veracruz	0.723
29	Puebla	0.721
Medium human development
30	Guerrero	0.694
31	Oaxaca	0.689
32	Chiapas	0.677

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 11 Feb 2023.