List of Mexican states by HDI
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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 | 4,199,292 | 64,924 |
| 2 | Nuevo León | 0.8451 | 8,720,916 | 1,479 |
| 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 |