List of German states by Human Development Index

This is a list of German states by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2021.

Map of German states by HDI in 2018.

  > 0.949

  0.949 – 0.930

  0.929 – 0.910

  < 0.909

Rank	State	HDI (2021)	Comparable country
Very high human development
1	Hamburg	0.972	Switzerland
2	Berlin	0.959	Iceland
3	Baden-Württemberg	0.956	Iceland
4	Bremen	0.954	Hong Kong
5	Bavaria	0.950	Australia
	Hesse	0.950	Australia
—	Germany (average)	0.942	Netherlands
7	North Rhine-Westphalia	0.939	Singapore
8	Saxony	0.933	Liechtenstein
9	Saarland	0.931	Luxembourg
10	Lower Saxony	0.930	Luxembourg United Kingdom
11	Rhineland-Palatinate	0.929	United Kingdom
12	Thuringia	0.923	Japan South Korea United States
13	Schleswig-Holstein	0.921	United States
14	Brandenburg	0.918	Malta Slovenia
15	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.916	Austria
16	Saxony-Anhalt	0.911	United Arab Emirates

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