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. In 2019, only Mexico City and five states – specifically, the five highest on the chart below – had very high human development. The remaining states, aside from Chiapas, all had high human development. Between 2019 and 2022, 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 (2022)
Very high human development
1	Mexico City	0.839
2	Baja California	0.811
3	Nuevo León	0.809
4	Baja California Sur	0.806
5	Sinaloa	0.805
6	Sonora	0.804
High human development
7	Coahuila	0.799
8	Aguascalientes	0.798
9	Tamaulipas	0.793
10	Jalisco	0.790
11	Colima
12	Querétaro	0.789
13	Chihuahua	0.786
14	State of Mexico	0.785
15	Quintana Roo	0.782
–	Mexico (average)	0.781
16	Morelos	0.778
17	Nayarit	0.777
18	Tabasco	0.774
19	Yucatán
20	Tlaxcala	0.772
21	Campeche	0.771
22	Durango
23	Zacatecas	0.766
24	San Luis Potosí	0.761
25	Hidalgo	0.760
26	Guanajuato	0.758
27	Michoacán	0.745
28	Veracruz	0.744
29	Puebla	0.743
30	Guerrero	0.715
31	Oaxaca	0.709
Medium human development
32	Chiapas	0.697

See also

• List of Mexican states by poverty rate
• List of Mexican states by unemployment