List of Mexican states by HDI

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

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