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, eight 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) |
|---|---|---|
| Very high human development | ||
| 1 | Mexico City | 0.847 |
| 2 | Baja California | 0.820 |
| 3 | Nuevo León | 0.816 |
| 4 | Sinaloa | 0.816 |
| 5 | Baja California Sur | 0.815 |
| 6 | Sonora | 0.814 |
| 7 | Coahuila | 0.807 |
| 8 | Aguascalientes | 0.806 |
| 9 | Tamaulipas | 0.802 |
| High human development | ||
| 10 | Jalisco | 0.799 |
| 11 | Colima | |
| 12 | Querétaro | 0.797 |
| 13 | Chihuahua | 0.796 |
| 14 | State of Mexico | 0.795 |
| 15 | Quintana Roo | 0.790 |
| – | Mexico (average) | 0.789 |
| 16 | Nayarit | 0.789 |
| 17 | Morelos | 0.788 |
| 18 | Tabasco | 0.784 |
| 19 | Yucatán | |
| 20 | Tlaxcala | 0.782 |
| 21 | Durango | 0.781 |
| 22 | Campeche | 0.780 |
| 23 | Zacatecas | 0.777 |
| 24 | San Luis Potosí | 0.772 |
| 25 | Hidalgo | |
| 26 | Guanajuato | 0.769 |
| 27 | Michoacán | 0.758 |
| 28 | Veracruz | 0.757 |
| 29 | Puebla | 0.755 |
| 30 | Guerrero | 0.727 |
| 31 | Oaxaca | 0.723 |
| 32 | Chiapas | 0.710 |