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
3  Punjab 0.546
4  Sindh 0.514
5  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.511
6  Balochistan 0.460

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Pakistan's Administrative Units from 1990 - 2021.

Unit [1] HDI 1990 HDI 1995 HDI 2000 HDI 2005 HDI 2010 HDI 2015 HDI 2020 HDI 2021
Azad Kashmir 0.464 0.484 0.521 0.575 0.593 0.600 0.611 0.612
Balochistan 0.380 0.396 0.418 0.458 0.448 0.453 0.477 0.475
Gilgit-Baltistan 0.422 0.439 0.461 0.504 0.515 0.551 0.593 0.592
Islamabad (ICT) 0.505 0.529 0.560 0.617 0.672 0.688 0.658 0.659
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.392 0.409 0.430 0.472 0.496 0.514 0.529 0.527
Punjab 0.388 0.404 0.426 0.468 0.503 0.540 0.562 0.567
Sindh 0.385 0.403 0.427 0.470 0.497 0.519 0.516 0.517
Pakistan 0.400 0.417 0.441 0.484 0.505 0.534 0.543 0.544

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 8 July 2023.

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