This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2021. ^[1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside.

Rank	Pre-2016 region	Region since 2016	HDI (2021)
Very high human development
1	Île-de-France		0.952
2	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.919
3	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie	0.914
4	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.904
–	France		0.903
5	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur		0.902
	Alsace	Grand Est
7	Pays de la Loire		0.899
8	Brittany		0.898
9	Languedoc-Roussillon	Occitanie	0.890
10	Auvergne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.886
	Poitou-Charentes	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
12	Upper Normandy	Normandy	0.884
	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Hauts-de-France
14	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.883
15	Centre-Val de Loire		0.882
16	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.879
17	Lorraine	Grand Est	0.878
18	Limousin	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.877
	Lower Normandy	Normandy
20	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est	0.875
21	Picardy	Hauts-de-France	0.867
22	Corsica		0.863
23	Guadeloupe		0.853
24	Martinique		0.848
25	Réunion		0.843
High human development
26	French Guiana		0.793
27	Mayotte		0.781

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