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This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan). The subnational and national average figures for the PRC/ROC division are mainly derived from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at Radboud University. The index does not cover Macau, a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of Mainland China are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China, which is calculated by the annual UNDP Human Development Report, is exclusively applied to the mainland.
Rank | Provincial-level division / National average | HDI (2021) [1] |
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Very high human development | ||
– | Hong Kong [lower-alpha 1] | 0.956 (2022) |
– | Republic of China (Taiwan) [lower-alpha 2] | 0.925 (2022) [lower-alpha 3] |
– | Macau [lower-alpha 1] | 0.925 (2022) [lower-alpha 4] |
1 | Beijing | 0.907 |
2 | Shanghai | 0.880 |
3 | Tianjin | 0.844 |
4 | Jiangsu | 0.810 |
5 | Zhejiang | 0.801 |
High human development | ||
6 | Guangdong | 0.799 |
7 | Liaoning | 0.780 |
8 | Inner Mongolia | 0.777 |
9 | Fujian | 0.775 |
Hubei | ||
11 | Chongqing | 0.774 |
12 | Hainan | 0.769 |
13 | Shaanxi | 0.768 |
– | People's Republic of China (Average) [lower-alpha 5] | 0.768 |
14 | Shandong | 0.765 |
15 | Hunan | 0.762 |
16 | Shanxi | 0.758 |
17 | Jilin | 0.751 |
18 | Henan | 0.748 |
19 | Jiangxi | 0.747 |
20 | Anhui | 0.744 |
Hebei | ||
22 | Heilongjiang | 0.743 |
23 | Sichuan | 0.740 |
24 | Xinjiang | 0.738 |
25 | Guangxi | 0.734 |
Ningxia | ||
Medium human development | ||
27 | Yunnan | 0.697 |
28 | Qinghai | 0.695 |
29 | Gansu | 0.693 |
30 | Guizhou | 0.690 |
31 | Tibet | 0.614 |
Notes:
Legend | ||||
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Very High human development 0.900 and above 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849 | High human development 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749 | Medium human development 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599 | Data unavailable |
Legend | ||||
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Very High human development 0.900–0.949 | High human development 0.850–0.899 0.800–0.849 | Medium human development 0.750–0.799 0.700–0.749 0.650–0.699 0.600–0.649 0.550–0.599 0.500–0.549 | Low human development 0.450–0.499 0.400–0.449 0.350–0.399 | Data unavailable |
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