List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan). The 2018/2019 figures for PRC/ROC divisions come from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at Radboud University. The index did not cover Macau, a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of Mainland China are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China which calculated by the annual UNDP Human Development Report is exclusively applied to mainland only.

List of administrative divisions by HDI

Administrative divisions of the PRC and Taiwan by Human Development Index (2019).

Very high (≥ 0.800)

High (0.700 – 0.799)

Medium (0.550 – 0.699)

Rank	Provincial-level division / National average	HDI [1]	Comparable country[2][lower-alpha 1]
Very high human development
–	Hong Kong[lower-alpha 2]	0.949	Iceland
–	Macau[lower-alpha 2]	0.922[lower-alpha 3]	Austria
–	Republic of China (Taiwan)[lower-alpha 4]	0.916[lower-alpha 5]	South Korea
1	Beijing	0.904	Spain
2	Shanghai	0.873	Andorra
3	Tianjin	0.838	Brunei
4	Jiangsu	0.803	Mauritius
High human development
5	Zhejiang	0.795	Albania
6	Guangdong	0.793	Albania
7	Liaoning	0.774	North Macedonia
8	Inner Mongolia	0.771	North Macedonia
9	Fujian	0.769	Colombia
9	Hubei	0.769
11	Chongqing	0.768
12	Hainan	0.763	Brazil
13	Shaanxi	0.762	Brazil, Ecuador, Saint Lucia
–	People's Republic of China (Average)[lower-alpha 6]	0.761	Ecuador, Saint Lucia
14	Shandong	0.759	Ecuador, Saint Lucia
15	Hunan	0.755	Azerbaijan, Dominican Republic
16	Shanxi	0.752	Moldova
17	Jilin	0.745	Lebanon
18	Henan	0.742	Dominica
19	Jiangxi	0.741	Dominica, Maldives
20	Anhui	0.738	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname
20	Hebei	0.738	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname
22	Heilongjiang	0.737	Mongolia
23	Sichuan	0.734	Jamaica
24	Xinjiang	0.732	Jamaica
25	Guangxi	0.728	Paraguay
25	Ningxia	0.728	Paraguay
Medium human development
27	Yunnan	0.691	Morocco
28	Qinghai	0.689
29	Gansu	0.687
30	Guizhou	0.685
31	Tibet	0.608	Vanuatu

Notes:

Compared according to the dataset, but not given in the original source.
Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China.
Macao's HDI is not included in the SHDI database or any UNDP annual report. According to the 2021 annual report published by Statistics and Census Service of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, the HDI for Macau was 0.922 in 2019.[3]
Taiwan is under separate rule by the Republic of China as a de facto independent state since 1950, but is claimed by the People's Republic of China as a province. The ROC also claims the mainland as its constitutional-defined territory.[4]
In the 2018 Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI) Database, from which the HDIs of every first-level administrative regions of China except Macao are acquired, Taiwan's HDI was 0.880.[5] However, from 2019 onward, Taiwan and Hong Kong are no longer included in the SHDI Database among Chinese divisions.[1] By contrast, the HDIs which published by the Statistical Bureau of Taiwan in its 2019 & 2020 reports were displayed as 0.911 in 2018, and 0.916 in 2019 respectively.[6][7] The cause of discrepancy was due to lack of available national data in the UNDP database for Taiwan. The SHDI claimed that the data collection for Taiwan was also derived from the Taiwanese Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics;[8] in this list the latter source is used as primary data.
Figures refer to mainland China only.[9]

Legend
Very High human development 0.900 and above 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849	High human development 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749	Medium human development 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599	Data unavailable

Legend
Very High human development 0.900–0.949	High human development 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849	Medium human development 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599 0.500–0.549	Low human development 0.450–0.499 0.400–0.449 0.350–0.399	Data unavailable

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