List of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic used to rank some area by level of "human development" and separate developed (Very High development), developing (High and Medium development), and underdeveloped (Low development) areas. The statistics is composed from data on life expectancy, education and per-capita GNI (as an indicator of standard of living) collected at the national level.

Administrative units by Human Development Index

This is a list of provinces and administrative territories of Pakistan in order of their Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2017 based on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) findings.^[1]

Rank	Region	HDI (2017)
	Very high human development
1	Islamabad Capital Territory	0.875
High human development
2	Azad Kashmir	0.734
3	Punjab	0.732
Medium human development
-	Pakistan	0.681
4	Sindh	0.640
5	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0.628
6	Gilgit-Baltistan	0.579
Low human development
7	Balochistan	0.523

See also

• Education in Pakistan
• Demographics of Pakistan
• Economy of Pakistan
• Health in Pakistan
• List of Pakistani provinces by gross domestic product