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List of German states by Human Development Index

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Map of German states by HDI in 2018: > 0.949 0.949 – 0.930 0.929 – 0.910 < 0.909

This is a list of German states by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2023.

Rank	State	HDI (2023)	Comparable countries
Very high human development
1	Hamburg	0.977	Iceland
	Berlin
3	Baden-Württemberg	0.972	Switzerland
4	Bavaria	0.967
5	Hesse	0.963	Denmark
6	Bremen	0.961
—	Germany (average)	0.959	Sweden
7	North Rhine-Westphalia	0.955	Hong Kong
8	Saxony	0.953
9	Rhineland-Palatinate	0.948	Finland
10	Lower Saxony	0.945	UK
11	Saarland	0.944
12	Schleswig-Holstein	0.939	Canada
13	Thuringia	0.937	South Korea
14	Brandenburg	0.936
15	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.932	Slovenia
16	Saxony-Anhalt	0.930	Austria

Development 1995–2015

Human Development Index of German states since 1995.

State	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	Increase 1995–2015
Hamburg	0.874	0.896	0.934	0.953	0.964	9.0%
Baden-Württemberg	0.847	0.872	0.905	0.926	0.941	9.4%
Bremen	0.853	0.879	0.910	0.930	0.938	8.5%
Hesse	0.849	0.875	0.908	0.926	0.935	8.6%
Bavaria	0.835	0.861	0.894	0.916	0.933	9.8%
Berlin	0.840	0.866	0.897	0.919	0.932	9.2%
North Rhine-Westphalia	0.834	0.860	0.891	0.910	0.924	9.0%
Saxony	0.830	0.855	0.887	0.904	0.916	8.6%
Rhineland-Palatinate	0.823	0.849	0.879	0.901	0.914	9.1%
Saarland	0.824	0.849	0.880	0.901	0.914	9.0%
Lower Saxony	0.819	0.844	0.875	0.896	0.912	9.3%
Schleswig-Holstein	0.820	0.846	0.877	0.893	0.907	8.7%
Thuringia	0.815	0.847	0.873	0.892	0.906	9.1%
Brandenburg	0.811	0.836	0.868	0.888	0.902	9.1%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.806	0.831	0.863	0.884	0.897	9.1%
Saxony-Anhalt	0.807	0.832	0.862	0.883	0.895	8.8%
Germany	0.834	0.860	0.892	0.912	0.926	9.2%

See also

List of countries by Human Development Index