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

This is a list of provinces and administrative territories of Pakistan in order of their Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2022.

Rank Region HDI (2022)[1]
Medium human development
1 Islamabad Capital Territory 0.654
2 Azad Kashmir 0.589
3 Gilgit Baltistan 0.574
Low Human development
4 Punjab 0.546
- Pakistan 0.540
5 Sindh 0.514
6 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.511
7 Balochistan 0.460
8 FATA 0.453

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 27 April 2025.

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