List of Mexican states by Human Development Index

Map of Mexican states indicating HDI (2004) 0.80 and higher 0.750–0.799 0.70–0.749

The following table presents a listing of Mexico's 31 federal states (and its Federal District, officially not a state), ranked in order of their Human Development Index, as reported by the United Nations in 2004.

For information on the HDI of each municipality, consult the UNDP website.

None of the States (and the Federal District) have a low level of human development.

Rank	State	HDI	Population	km²	Similarity
High human development
1	Distrito Federal	0.8830	8,720,916	1,479	Czech Republic
2	Nuevo León	0.8451	4,199,292	64,924	Croatia
3	Coahuila	0.8284	2,495,200	149,982	United Arab Emirates
4	Baja California Sur	0.8269	512,170	73,475	Cuba
5	Aguascalientes	0.8246	1,065,416	5,471	Bahamas
6	Quintana Roo	0.8238	1,135,309	50,212	Mexico
7	Baja California	0.8233	2,844,469	69,921	Bulgaria
8	Chihuahua	0.8224	3,241,444	244,938	Tonga
9	Campeche	0.8189	754,730	50,812	Montenegro
10	Sonora	0.8163	2,394,861	182,052	Oman
11	Tamaulipas	0.8111	3,024,238	79,384	Panama
12	Querétaro	0.8015	1,598,139	11,449	Serbia
13	Jalisco	0.8007	6,752,113	80,386	Libya
14	Colima	0.8001	567,996	5,191	Russia
Medium human development
15	Durango	0.7910	1,509,117	123,181	Brazil
16	Morelos	0.7856	1,612,899	4,950	Colombia
17	Sinaloa	0.7800	2,608,442	58,328	Venezuela
18	México	0.7789	14,007,495	21,355	Thailand
19	Yucatán	0.7778	1,818,948	38,402	Saudi Arabia
20	San Luis Potosí	0.7694	2,410,414	63,068	Ukraine
21	Tabasco	0.7684	1,989,969	25,267	China
22	Guanajuato	0.7662	4,893,812	30,491	Peru
23	Nayarit	0.7652	949,684	26,979	Ecuador
24	Tlaxcala	0.7641	1,068,207	4,016	Philipines
25	Puebla	0.7598	5,383,133	33,902	Jordan
26	Zacatecas	0.7563	1,367,692	73,252	Turkey
27	Hidalgo	0.7515	2,345,514	20,813	Dominican Republic
28	Veracruz	0.7457	7,110,214	71,699	Iran
29	Michoacán	0.7422	3,966,073	59,928	Palestine
30	Guerrero	0.7296	3,115,202	64,281	El Salvador
31	Oaxaca	0.7164	3,506,821	93,952	Indonesia
32	Chiapas	0.7076	4,293,459	74,211	Vietnam

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