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The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank some area by level of "human development" and separate developed (Very High development), developing (High and Medium development), and underdeveloped (Low development) areas. The statistics is composed from data on life expectancy, education and per-capita GNI (as an indicator of standard of living) collected at the national level.

Administrative units by Human Development Index

This is a list of provinces and administrative territories of Pakistan in order of their Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2021.

Rank Region HDI (2021) [1] Comparable Country (2021)
Medium human development
1 Islamabad Capital Territory 0.659   Bangladesh
2   Azad Kashmir 0.612   Eswatini   Namibia
3   Gilgit-Baltistan 0.595   Cambodia
3   Punjab 0.550   Ivory Coast
Low human development
  Pakistan (average) 0.544   Tanzania   Togo
4   Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.527   Lesotho
5   Sindh 0.517   Lesotho
6   Balochistan 0.463   Guinea

Historical trends by UNDP reports (international HDI)

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Pakistan's Administrative Units from 1990 - 2021.

Unit [1] HDI 1990 HDI 1995 HDI 2000 HDI 2005 HDI 2010 HDI 2015 HDI 2020 HDI 2021
Azad Kashmir 0.464 0.484 0.521 0.575 0.593 0.600 0.592 0.612
Balochistan 0.380 0.396 0.418 0.458 0.448 0.453 0.462 0.463
Gilgit-Baltistan 0.422 0.439 0.461 0.504 0.515 0.551 0.578 0.579
Islamabad (ICT) 0.505 0.529 0.560 0.617 0.672 0.688 0.658 0.659
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.392 0.409 0.430 0.472 0.496 0.514 0.514 0.515
Punjab 0.388 0.404 0.426 0.468 0.503 0.540 0.549 0.550
Sindh 0.385 0.403 0.427 0.470 0.497 0.519 0.516 0.517
Pakistan 0.400 0.417 0.441 0.484 0.505 0.534 0.543 0.544

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 8 July 2023.

Further reading

External links

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