List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank some area by level of "human development" and separate developed (Very High development), developing (High and Medium development), and underdeveloped (Low development) areas. The statistics is composed from data on life expectancy, education and per-capita GNI (as an indicator of standard of living) collected at the national level.

Administrative units by Human Development Index (international HDI)
Pakistan provinces 2018 HDI map
  0.650 to 0.700
  0.600 to 0.649
  0.550 to 0.599
  0.500 to 0.549
  0.450 to 0.499

This is a list of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index as of 2018.[1]

Rank Region HDI (2018)[1]
Change from
previous year		 Comparable countries[2]
Medium human development
1  Islamabad 0.678 0.010  Morocco
2  Azad Kashmir 0.611 0.004  São Tomé and Príncipe
3  Gilgit Baltistan 0.593 0.006  Zambia
4  Punjab 0.567 0.002  Cameroon/ Zimbabwe
–  Pakistan (average) 0.561 0.003  Cameroon/ Zimbabwe
Low human development
5  Sindh 0.533 0.002  Nigeria
6  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.529 0.001  Tanzania/ Uganda
7  Balochistan 0.477 0.002  Ethiopia
8  FATA 0.466 0.003  Gambia/ Guinea

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Pakistan Provinces since 1990.

Subnational HDI Pakistan 2018
Unit [1] HDI 1990 HDI 1995 HDI 2000 HDI 2005 HDI 2010 HDI 2015 HDI 2018
Azad Jammu & Kashmir 0.469 0.503 0.533 0.597 0.617 0.618 0.611
Balochistan 0.383 0.406 0.425 0.471 0.464 0.468 0.477
FATA 0.378 0.400 0.418 0.463 0.474 0.472 0.466
Gilgit-Baltistan 0.428 0.451 0.472 0.522 0.536 0.569 0.593
Islamabad (ICT) 0.509 0.540 0.568 0.631 0.692 0.703 0.678
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.396 0.419 0.438 0.485 0.514 0.529 0.529
Punjab 0.393 0.415 0.435 0.482 0.522 0.557 0.567
Sindh 0.390 0.414 0.435 0.484 0.515 0.534 0.533
Pakistan 0.404 0.429 0.449 0.498 0.524 0.550 0.561

See also

References
  1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. "Human Development Report 2019 Overview" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. pp. 22–25. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
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