This is a list of Brazilian states by Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

 as included in the 2008 United Nations Development Program's Report, compiled on the basis of 2005 data and published on September 15, 2008. It covers the 26 Brazilian states, along with the Brazilian Federal District

Brazilian Federal District

The Federal District is set apart for Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Located in a region called Planalto Central, or Central Plateau, the Federal District is divided in 29 administrative regions. Brasilia - place where the three branches of the Federal Government are located - is the main...

 (a Statelike constitutional entity; it can not be divided in Municipalities). The average HDI of the Brazilian geographical regions

Regions of Brazil

Brazil is divided into five regions by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística . These divisions are composed of states within them.-The five regions:-North Region: *Area: 3,869,637.,9 km²...

 are also included for comparison. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy

Life expectancy

Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is denoted by ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience...

, literacy

Literacy

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...

, education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 and standards of living

Standard of living

Standard of living is generally measured by standards such as real income per person and poverty rate. Other measures such as access and quality of health care, income growth inequality and educational standards are also used. Examples are access to certain goods , or measures of health such as...

 for regions worldwide. It is a standard means of measuring well-being, especially child welfare

Child welfare

Child protection is used to describe a set of usually government-run services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability...

. It is used to distinguish whether the region is a developed

Developed country

A developed country is a country that has a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue...

, a developing

Developing country

A developing country, also known as a less-developed country, is a nation with a low level of material well-being. Since no single definition of the term developing country is recognized internationally, the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries...

 or an under-developed country

Least Developed Countries

Least developed country is the name given to a country which, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world...

, and also to measure the impact of economic policies on quality of life. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i economist

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq

Mahbub ul Haq was an Pakistani economist who is known to be the pioneer of Human development theory and the founder of the Human Development Report...

 and Indian economist Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...

.

States fall into three broad categories based on their HDI: high, medium and low human development.

Listings

= increase compared with the previous year. = steady compared with the previous year. = decrease compared with the previous year.

• Similar HDI values in the current list do not lead to ranking ties, since the HDI rank is actually determined using HDI values to the sixth decimal point.
• The number in brackets represents the number of ranks the state or region has climbed (up or down) since the previous year.

Human Development Index

Rank		States and Regions	HDI		Comparable country
2005 data	Compared to 2004 data		2005 data	2004 data
1	(0)		0.874	0.868	Independent State of Croatia
2	(0)	Santa Catarina (state)	0.840	0.833	Kingdom of Bulgaria
3	(2)	São Paulo (state)	0.833	0.825	Kingdom of Romania
4	(0)	Rio de Janeiro (state)	0.832	0.826	Kingdom of Montenegro
5	(2)	Rio Grande do Sul	0.832	0.829	Kingdom of Montenegro
6	(2)	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.830	0.802	Slovenia
—		Southern Region Southern Region, Brazil The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,409.6 km ², being the smallest portion of the country...	0.829	0.825	Malaysia
—		Southeast Region Southeast Region, Brazil The Southeast Region of Brazil is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 60% of the Brazilian GDP. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are three richest states of Brazil,...	0.824	0.817	Serbia
7	(0)	Paraná (state)	0.820	0.816	Russia
—		Central-West Region	0.815	0.809	Russia
—		Brazil	0.808	0.800	Brazil
8	(1)	Espírito Santo	0.802	0.794	Lebanon
9	(0)	Goiás	0.800	0.794	Lebanon
10	(3)	Minas Gerais	0.800	0.795	Lebanon
11	(0)	Mato Grosso	0.796	0.793	Ukraine
12	(2)	Amapá	0.780	0.762	Iran
13	(0)	Amazonas (state, Brazil)	0.780	0.766	Iran
14	(2)	Rondônia	0.776	0.768	Dominican Republic
—		North Region North Region, Brazil The North Region of Brazil is the largest Region of Brazil, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory. It is the least inhabited of the country, and contributes with a minor percentage in the national GDP and population...	0.764	0.755	Jamaica
15	(0)	Tocantins	0.756	0.751	Gabon
16	(0)	Pará	0.755	0.749	Gabon
17	(0)	Acre (state)	0.751	0.748	Philippines
18	(0)	Roraima	0.750	0.741	Philippines
19	(1)	Bahia	0.742	0.732	Syria
20	(1)	Sergipe	0.742	0.741	Syria
21	(0)	Rio Grande do Norte	0.738	0.724	Palestinian territories
22	(0)	Ceará	0.723	0.717	Vietnam
—		Northeast Region Northeast Region, Brazil The Northeast Region of Brazil is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....	0.720	0.713	Moldova
23	(0)	Pernambuco	0.718	0.710	Equatorial Guinea
24	(0)	Paraíba	0.718	0.709	Equatorial Guinea
25	(0)	Piauí	0.703	0.698	Egypt
26	(0)	Maranhão	0.683	0.686	South Africa
27	(0)	Alagoas	0.677	0.670	South Africa

Education index

Rank		States and Regions	Education index		Comparable country
2005 data	Change compared with 2004 data		in 2005	in 2004
1	(0)		0.962	0.962	Latvia
2	(0)	Rio de Janeiro (state)	0.945	0.938	Switzerland
3	(0)	Santa Catarina (state)	0.934	0.934	Czech Republic
4	(4)	Amazonas (state, Brazil)	0.925	0.903	Portugal
—		Southern Region Southern Region, Brazil The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,409.6 km ², being the smallest portion of the country...	0.921	0.918	Slovakia
5	(0)	São Paulo (state)	0.921	0.919	Slovakia
6	(2)	Rio Grande do Sul	0.921	0.920	Slovakia
7	(1)	Amapá	0.919	0.910	Kyrgyzstan
8	(1)	Paraná (state)	0.913	0.907	Chile
—		Southeast Region Southeast Region, Brazil The Southeast Region of Brazil is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 60% of the Brazilian GDP. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are three richest states of Brazil,...	0.913	0.911	Chile
—		Central-West Region	0.906	0.901	Cyprus
9	(0)	Mato Grosso	0.898	0.889	Independent State of Croatia
10	(1)	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.894	0.885	Saint Kitts and Nevis
11	(1)	Goiás	0.891	0.887	Palestinian territories
12	(1)	Espírito Santo	0.887	0.882	Albania
13	(2)	Roraima	0.885	0.884	Hong Kong
14	(1)	Rondônia	0.885	0.877	Hong Kong
—		Brazil	0.883	0.878	Brazil
—		North Region North Region, Brazil The North Region of Brazil is the largest Region of Brazil, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory. It is the least inhabited of the country, and contributes with a minor percentage in the national GDP and population...	0.880	0.866	Brunei
15	(1)	Minas Gerais	0.878	0.879	Panama
16	(1)	Pará	0.861	0.847	Mexico
17	(1)	Tocantins	0.860	0.850	Maldives
18	(0)	Acre (state)	0.844	0.841	Thailand
19	(1)	Bahia	0.830	0.817	Indonesia
20	(1)	Sergipe	0.827	0.829	Dominican Republic
21	(2)	Pernambuco	0.811	0.799	Nicaragua
22	(0)	Rio Grande do Norte	0.810	0.804	Mauritius
23	(2)	Ceará	0.808	0.808	Saudi Arabia
—		Northeast Region Northeast Region, Brazil The Northeast Region of Brazil is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....	0.807	0.801	Gabon
24	(0)	Paraíba	0.793	0.792	United Arab Emirates
25	(0)	Maranhão	0.784	0.784	São Tomé and Príncipe
26	(0)	Piauí	0.779	0.780	Botswana
27	(0)	Alagoas	0.759	0.755	Syria

Income index

Rank		States and Regions	Income index		Comparable country
2005 data	Change compared with 2004 data		in 2005	in 2004
1	(0)		0.824	0.811	Poland
2	(1)	São Paulo (state)	0.768	0.750	Libya
3	(1)	Rio de Janeiro (state)	0.758	0.753	Uruguay
4	(1)	Santa Catarina (state)	0.756	0.740	Kingdom of Bulgaria
—		Southeast Region Southeast Region, Brazil The Southeast Region of Brazil is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 60% of the Brazilian GDP. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are three richest states of Brazil,...	0.750	0.736	Kingdom of Romania
5	(1)	Rio Grande do Sul	0.748	0.744	Thailand
—		Southern Region Southern Region, Brazil The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,409.6 km ², being the smallest portion of the country...	0.746	0.740	Turkey
6	(0)	Paraná (state)	0.739	0.737	Dominican Republic
—		Central-West Region	0.736	0.728	Iran
7	(1)	Espírito Santo	0.715	0.704	Republic of Macedonia
—		Brazil	0.713	0.703	Brazil
8	(1)	Goiás	0.712	0.703	Belize
9	(1)	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.709	0.698	Bosnia and Herzegovina
10	(1)	Minas Gerais	0.702	0.691	Saint Lucia
11	(4)	Mato Grosso	0.702	0.705	Saint Lucia
12	(0)	Rondônia	0.685	0.674	Fiji
13	(3)	Amapá	0.676	0.636	Cape Verde
14	(5)	Rio Grande do Norte	0.657	0.628	Philippines
15	(2)	Amazonas (state, Brazil)	0.648	0.634	Azerbaijan
16	(2)	Acre (state)	0.647	0.645	Armenia
17	(4)	Tocantins	0.647	0.647	Armenia
—		North Region North Region, Brazil The North Region of Brazil is the largest Region of Brazil, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory. It is the least inhabited of the country, and contributes with a minor percentage in the national GDP and population...	0.646	0.639	Swaziland
18	(3)	Sergipe	0.643	0.645	Sri Lanka
19	(2)	Paraíba	0.638	0.620	Guatemala
20	(0)	Pernambuco	0.632	0.627	Morocco
21	(3)	Pará	0.632	0.633	Morocco
22	(0)	Roraima	0.629	0.609	Egypt
23	(0)	Bahia	0.621	0.608	Ecuador
—		Northeast Region Northeast Region, Brazil The Northeast Region of Brazil is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....	0.619	0.610	Jamaica
24	(0)	Ceará	0.616	0.605	Indonesia
25	(0)	Piauí	0.608	0.601	Turkmenistan
26	(1)	Alagoas	0.589	0.577	Georgia (country)
27	(1)	Maranhão	0.570	0.584	Vietnam

Life expectancy index

Rank		States and Regions	Longevity index		Comparable country
2005 data	Change compared with 2004 data		in 2005	in 2004
1	(0)		0.835	0.831	Poland
2	(0)	Santa Catarina (state)	0.830	0.826	Argentina
3	(0)	Rio Grande do Sul	0.827	0.824	Bosnia and Herzegovina
—		Southern Region Southern Region, Brazil The South Region of Brazil is one of the five regions of Brazil. It includes the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and covers 576,409.6 km ², being the smallest portion of the country...	0.820	0.816	Slovakia
4	(0)	Minas Gerais	0.819	0.815	Antigua and Barbuda
5	(0)	São Paulo (state)	0.812	0.807	Malaysia
6	(0)	Paraná (state)	0.809	0.804	Libya
—		Southeast Region Southeast Region, Brazil The Southeast Region of Brazil is composed by the states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It is the richest region of the country, responsible for approximately 60% of the Brazilian GDP. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais are three richest states of Brazil,...	0.809	0.804	Libya
—		Central-West Region	0.803	0.798	Venezuela
7	(0)	Espírito Santo	0.802	0.797	Saint Lucia
8	(0)	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.802	0.797	Saint Lucia
9	(0)	Goiás	0.797	0.792	Tonga
10	(0)	Rio de Janeiro (state)	0.793	0.788	Lithuania
11	(0)	Mato Grosso	0.789	0.784	The Bahamas
—		Brazil	0.785	0.780	Brazil
12	(0)	Bahia	0.775	0.770	Lebanon
13	(0)	Pará	0.772	0.768	Turkey
14	(0)	Amazonas (state, Brazil)	0.766	0.761	Cape Verde
—		North Region North Region, Brazil The North Region of Brazil is the largest Region of Brazil, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory. It is the least inhabited of the country, and contributes with a minor percentage in the national GDP and population...	0.766	0.761	Cape Verde
15	(0)	Acre (state)	0.763	0.758	Georgia (country)
16	(0)	Tocantins	0.761	0.756	Egypt
17	(0)	Rondônia	0.759	0.754	Morocco
18	(0)	Sergipe	0.756	0.750	Iran
19	(3)	Rio Grande do Norte	0.747	0.717	Saint Kitts and Nevis
20	(1)	Amapá	0.744	0.739	Indonesia
21	(1)	Ceará	0.744	0.738	Indonesia
22	(1)	Roraima	0.736	0.731	Vanuatu
—		Northeast Region Northeast Region, Brazil The Northeast Region of Brazil is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....	0.734	0.728	Trinidad and Tobago
23	(0)	Paraíba	0.723	0.717	Moldova
24	(0)	Piauí	0.720	0.714	Fiji
25	(0)	Pernambuco	0.710	0.704	Ukraine
26	(0)	Maranhão	0.696	0.689	Uzbekistan
27	(0)	Alagoas	0.683	0.676	Kazakhstan