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 to 2017.[1]
As of 2023, thirteen states plus Mexico City are classified as having "very high human development." The remaining states, are labeled as having "high human development."
Mexican States
| Rank | Federal Entity | HDI (2023) |
Comparable
Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Very high human development | |||
| 1 | Mexico City | 0.876 | Chile |
| 2 | Nuevo León | 0.857 | Oman |
| 3 | Coahuila | 0.833 | Serbia |
| 4 | Baja California Sur | 0.831 | Russia |
| 5 | Baja California | 0.830 | |
| 6 | Querétaro | 0.829 | |
| 7 | Sonora | 0.828 | Belarus |
| Sinaloa | |||
| 9 | Aguascalientes | 0.825 | |
| 10 | Chihuahua | 0.817 | Malaysia |
| 11 | Tamaulipas | 0.807 | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 12 | Jalisco | 0.805 | Mauritius |
| 13 | Colima | ||
| 14 | State of Mexico | 0.802 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| High human development | |||
| 15 | Quintana Roo | 0.790 | Grenada |
| 16 | Nayarit | 0.789 | Azerbaijan |
| – | Mexico (average) | 0.789 | Azerbaijan |
| 17 | Morelos | 0.788 | Colombia |
| 18 | Tabasco | 0.784 | Moldova |
| 19 | Yucatán | ||
| 20 | San Luis Potosí | 0.782 | |
| 21 | Tlaxcala | ||
| 22 | Hidalgo | ||
| 23 | Durango | 0.781 | Ukraine |
| 24 | Campeche | 0.780 | |
| 25 | Zacatecas | 0.777 | Ecuador |
| 26 | Guanajuato | 0.769 | Tonga |
| 27 | Michoacán | 0.758 | Paraguay |
| 28 | Veracruz | 0.757 | |
| 29 | Puebla | 0.755 | Egypt |
| 30 | Guerrero | 0.727 | Indonesia |
| 31 | Oaxaca | 0.723 | Suriname |
| 32 | Chiapas | 0.710 | Morocco |