List of Governorates of Iraq by Human Development Index

This is a list of Governorates of Iraq by Human Development Index as of 2020 with data for the year 2018.[1]

Rank	Region	HDI (2018)	Comparable countries (2018)[2]
High human development
1	Kirkuk	0.708	Libya
2	Baghdad	0.706	Indonesia,  Samoa,  South Africa
	Sulaymaniyah (with Halabja)	0.706	Indonesia,  Samoa,  South Africa
3	Erbil	0.704	South Africa,  Bolivia
4	Dohuk	0.702	Gabon
Medium Human Development
5	Diyala	0.698	Marshall Islands
	Nineveh (with Tal Afar)	0.698	Marshall Islands
7	Saladin (with Tuz Khurmatu)	0.695	Vietnam
-	Iraq (average)	0.689	Palestine
8	Dhi Qar	0.686	Palestine
9	Babylon	0.684	Palestine
10	Al Anbar	0.683	Palestine
11	Al-Qādisiyyah	0.681	Palestine
12	Karbala	0.670	Guyana
13	Basra	0.668	El Salvador
14	Wasit	0.660	Tajikistan
15	Najaf	0.658	Tajikistan
16	Muthanna	0.647	India
17	Maysan	0.638	Namibia

Map of the Governorates of Iraq by Human Development Index, 2017.
Legend:

  0.700 – 0.799 (high)

  0.600 – 0.699 (medium)

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
2. "Human Development Report 2019 – "Human Development Indices and Indicators"" (PDF). Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Programme. pp. 22–25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2018.