List of Mexican states by HDI

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States of Mexico colored by HDI
States of Mexico colored 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 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

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