List of Brazilian states by human development index

Brazil's states according to HDI 2017.

0.800 - 1,000

0.700-0.799

0.600 - 0.699

The following list sorts the states of Brazil according to their Human Development Index .

The Human Development Index is a method of calculating the level of development of a country or region. The HDI not only takes into account the gross national income per capita, but also life expectancy and the duration of training based on the number of school years a 25-year-old has completed and the expected duration of a child's education at school age. The HDI was essentially developed by the Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq , who worked closely with the Indian economist Amartya Sen and the British economist and politician Meghnad Desai .

Calculation method

As of the Human Development Report 2010, the three dimensions are calculated as:

• Life expectancy index: life expectancy at birth (LE)
• Education index: Average school attendance (DSD) and expected school attendance (VSD) in years
• Standard of living : Gross National Income (GNI) per capita (GNIpk), PPP US $

1. Life Expectancy Index (LEI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{LE}}-20}{85{,}0-20}}}$
2. Education Index (BI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{DSDI}}+{\text{VSDI}}}{2}}}$

   2.1. Average School Attendance Index (DSDI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{DSD}}-0}{15{,}0-0}}}$

   2.2. Estimated School Attendance Index (VSDI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {{\text{VSD}}-0}{18{,}0-0}}}$

3. Income Index (EI) ${\displaystyle ={\dfrac {\ln({\text{BNEpk}})-\ln(100)}{\ln(75000)-\ln(100)}}}$

Finally, the HDI is calculated as a geometric mean from the three dimensions: ${\displaystyle {\text{HDI}}={\sqrt[{3}]{{\text{LEI}}\cdot {\text{BI}}\cdot {\text{EI}}}}.}$

LE: life expectancy at birth

DSD: Average duration of school attendance (number of years that a person aged 25 or older has attended school)

VSD: Estimated length of school attendance (number of years a 5-year-old child will likely go to school)

BNEpk: Gross national income per capita adjusted for purchasing power in US dollars

States according to HDI

All 26 states and the capital region according to the development of the Human Development Index from 1995 to 2017. For purposes of comparison, a country with a similar Human Development Index in the same year is also given. With a value of 0.760, Brazil was ranked 79th in the Human Development Index, making it one of the countries with high human development. In Brazil, the southern states in particular achieved a higher level of development. In contrast, the states in the northeast were much less developed.

rank	State	HDI 2017	HDI 2010	HDI 2000	HDI 1991	Increase 1991-2017	Comparable country
1	Federal District	0.850	0.824	0.725	0.616	▲ 0.234	Latvia
2	São Paulo	0.826	0.783	0.702	0.578	▲ 0.248	Argentina
3	Santa Catarina	0.808	0.774	0.674	0.543	▲ 0.265	Belarus
4th	Paraná	0.796	0.749	0.650	0.507	▲ 0.289	Seychelles
5	Rio Grande do Sul	0.792	0.746	0.664	0.542	▲ 0.250	Turkey
6th	Rio de Janeiro	0.787	0.761	0.664	0.573	▲ 0.214	Serbia
7th	Minas Gerais	0.787	0.731	0.624	0.478	▲ 0.309
8th	Espírito Santo	0.778	0.740	0.640	0.505	▲ 0.273	Cuba
9	Mato Grosso	0.772	0.725	0.601	0.449	▲ 0.323	Mexico
10	Goiás	0.769	0.735	0.615	0.487	▲ 0.282	Bosnia and Herzegovina
11	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.766	0.729	0.613	0.488	▲ 0.278
12	Roraima	0.752	0.707	0.598	0.459	▲ 0.293	People's Republic of China
13	Tocantins	0.743	0.699	0.525	0.369	▲ 0.374	Mongolia
14th	Amapá	0.740	0.708	0.577	0.472	▲ 0.268
15th	Ceará	0.735	0.682	0.541	0.405	▲ 0.330	Jordan
16	Amazon	0.733	0.674	0.515	0.430	▲ 0.303	Jamaica
17th	Rio Grande do Norte	0.731	0.684	0.552	0.428
18th	Pernambuco	0.727	0.673	0.544	0.440	▲ 0.287	Tonga
19th	Rondônia	0.725	0.690	0.537	0.407	▲ 0.318
20th	Paraíba	0.722	0.658	0.506	0.382	▲ 0.340	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
21st	acre	0.719	0.663	0.517	0.402	▲ 0.317	Suriname
22nd	Bahia	0.714	0.660	0.512	0.386	▲ 0.328	Botswana
23	Sergipe	0.702	0.665	0.518	0.413	▲ 0.289	Paraguay
24	Pará	0.698	0.646	0.518	0.413	▲ 0.285	South Africa
25th	Piauí	0.697	0.646	0.484	0.362	▲ 0.335	Egypt
26th	Maranhão	0.687	0.639	0.476	0.357	▲ 0.330	Iraq
27	Alagoas	0.683	0.631	0.471	0.370	▲ 0.313
Average		0.774	0.727	0.612	0.493	▲ 0.281	Mexico

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDR_2013_EN_TechNotes (PDF) Page 2.
2. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Radar IDHM: evolução do IDHM e de seus índices componentes no período de 2012 a 2017 .
4. ↑ 2013 Human Development Atlas in Brazil ( Portuguese ) In: Database . United Nations Development Program. Retrieved August 5, 2013.