List of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index

This is a list of Ecuadorian provinces by Human Development Index as of 2019, using the 2018 data.^[1] The following report is not official, but it is calculated with the official data of the indicators of the index, given by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC),^[2]^[3] and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE).^[4]

Map of the provinces of Ecuador by Human Development Index official categories.

> 0.799 (Very high)

0.799 – 0.700 (High)

0.699 – 0.555 (Medium)

Map of the provinces of Ecuador by Human Development Index categories in increments of 0.050 (based on 2018 data, published in 2019).

0,800–0,849

0,750–0,799

0,700–0,749

0,650–0,699

Rank	Province	2018 HDI^[5]	Comparable country
Very high human development
1	Pichincha	0.827	Argentina
2	Galápagos	0.806	Turkey
High human development
3	Azuay	0.792	Albania
4	Guayas	0.771	Bosnia and Herzegovina
5	Tungurahua	0.766	Mexico
-	Ecuador (average)	0.758	China
6	El Oro	0.758	China
7	Loja	0.749	Ukraine
8	Imbabura	0.742	Dominican Republic
9	Napo	0.735	Mongolia
10	Cañar	0.733	Mongolia
10	Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas	0.733	Mongolia
12	Carchi	0.731	Lebanon
13	Manabí	0.728	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
14	Cotopaxi	0.726	Venezuela
14	Pastaza	0.726	Venezuela
16	Esmeraldas	0.723	Jordan
17	Santa Elena	0.711	Moldova
18	Sucumbíos	0.709	Libya
19	Bolívar	0.708	Libya
20	Los Ríos	0.705	South Africa
21	Chimborazo	0.704	Bolivia
22	Orellana	0.702	Gabon
Medium human development
23	Morona Santiago	0.698	Marshall Islands
24	Zamora Chinchipe	0.695	Vietnam