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 1990-2017. [1] In 2019, only Mexico City and 5 Mexican states had very high human development, specifically the five highest states in the chart below. The rest of the states, aside from Chiapas, all had high human development. Between 2019 and 2021, 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.
Rank | Federal Entity | HDI (2021) [2] |
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Very high human development | ||
1 | Mexico City | 0.815 |
2 | Nuevo León | 0.808 |
High human development | ||
3 | Baja California | 0.788 |
4 | Baja California Sur | 0.783 |
5 | Sinaloa | 0.782 |
6 | Sonora | 0.781 |
7 | Coahuila de Zaragoza | 0.777 |
8 | Aguascalientes | 0.775 |
9 | Tamaulipas | 0.770 |
10 | Jalisco | 0.768 |
11 | Colima | 0.767 |
Querétaro | ||
13 | Chihuahua | 0.763 |
State of Mexico | ||
15 | Quintana Roo | 0.760 |
16 | Morelos | 0.756 |
17 | Nayarit | 0.755 |
18 | Tabasco | 0.752 |
Yucatán | ||
20 | Tlaxcala | 0.750 |
21 | Campeche | 0.749 |
Durango | ||
23 | Zacatecas | 0.744 |
24 | San Luis Potosí | 0.740 |
25 | Hidalgo | 0.738 |
26 | Guanajuato | 0.736 |
27 | Michoacán de Ocampo | 0.724 |
28 | Veracruz | 0.723 |
29 | Puebla | 0.721 |
Medium human development | ||
30 | Guerrero | 0.694 |
31 | Oaxaca | 0.689 |
32 | Chiapas | 0.677 |