List of French regions by Human Development Index

This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2018.[1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside.

Rank	Pre-2016 region	Region since 2016	HDI (2018)	Comparable country[2]
Very high human development
1	Île-de-France	Île-de-France	0.937	Singapore
2	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.901	South Korea
3	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie	0.896	Spain
–	France		0.891	Czech Republic
4	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	0.890	Czech Republic
5	Alsace	Grand Est	0.886	Malta
	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.886	Malta
7	Pays de la Loire	Pays de la Loire	0.884	Italy
8	Brittany	Brittany	0.883	Italy
9	Languedoc-Roussillon	Occitanie	0.873	Cyprus
	Limousin	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.873	Cyprus
11	Auvergne	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.872	Poland
	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.872	Poland
13	Poitou-Charentes	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.871	Poland
14	Centre-Val de Loire	Centre-Val de Loire	0.869	Lithuania
	Lorraine	Grand Est	0.869	Lithuania
16	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.868	Lithuania
	Upper Normandy	Normandy	0.868	Lithuania
18	Lower Normandy	Normandy	0.864	United Arab Emirates
	Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Hauts-de-France	0.864	United Arab Emirates
	Corsica	Corsica	0.864	United Arab Emirates
21	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est	0.862	United Arab Emirates
22	Martinique		0.854	Latvia
23	Picardy	Hauts-de-France	0.848	Qatar
24	Guadeloupe		0.841	Bahrain
25	Réunion		0.836	Bahrain
High human development
26	French Guiana		0.789	Albania
27	Mayotte		0.781	Sri Lanka

Map of French regions and overseas territories by HDI in 2017.
Legend:

  > 0.900

  0.880 - 0.900

  0.860 - 0.880

  0.800 - 0.860

  < 0.800

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
2. "| Human Development Reports". hdr.undp.org. Retrieved 2018-09-16.