List of the German federal states according to the human development index

The following list sorts the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany 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 follows:

• 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

Federal states according to HDI

Map of the German federal states according to HDI in 2018.
Legend:

> 0.949

0.949-0.930

0.929-0.910

<0.909

All 16 German federal states according to the development of their Human Development Index from 1990 to 2017. A country with a similar Human Development Index in the same year is also given. With a value of 0.937, Germany took 5th place in the Human Development Index, making it one of the countries with a very high level of human development. There is an east-west divide in human development in Germany.

rank	state	HDI 1990	HDI 2000	HDI 2010	HDI 2017	Increase 1990-2017	Comparable country
1	Hamburg	0.841	0.910	0.962	0.977	▲ 0.136	Norway
2	Baden-Württemberg	0.813	0.880	0.934	0.953	▲ 0.140	Norway
3	Bremen	0.820	0.888	0.937	0.952	▲ 0.132	Norway
4th	Hesse	0.815	0.882	0.934	0.947	▲ 0.132	Switzerland
5	Bavaria	0.802	0.870	0.924	0.944	▲ 0.142	Switzerland
	Berlin	0.806	0.874	0.928	0.944	▲ 0.138	Switzerland
7th	North Rhine-Westphalia	0.802	0.868	0.918	0.935	▲ 0.133	Iceland
8th	Saxony	0.796	0.864	0.912	0.926	▲ 0.130	Canada
	Saarland	0.791	0.857	0.909	0.926	▲ 0.135	Canada
10	Rhineland-Palatinate	0.790	0.857	0.908	0.924	▲ 0.134	United States
11	Lower Saxony	0.786	0.852	0.904	0.922	▲ 0.136	United Kingdom
12	Schleswig-Holstein	0.788	0.853	0.902	0.917	▲ 0.128	New Zealand
	Thuringia	0.783	0.849	0.901	0.917	▲ 0.134	New Zealand
14th	Brandenburg	0.779	0.844	0.897	0.913	▲ 0.134	Belgium
15th	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	0.774	0.840	0.893	0.908	▲ 0.134	Austria
16	Saxony-Anhalt	0.774	0.840	0.892	0.905	▲ 0.131	South Korea
	Germany	0.801	0.868	0.921	0.937	▲ 0.136	Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDR_2013_EN_TechNotes (PDF) Page 2.
2. ^ Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. Retrieved August 4, 2018 .