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.

In Pakistan, Islamabad Capital Territory has the highest HDI in the country. Its HDI score of 0.678 places it firmly within the Medium Human Development category, on par with the country of Morocco (0.676). It is followed by Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Punjab, all of whom also have a Medium level of Human Development. The remaining regions of Pakistan have a Low level of Human Development, with Balochistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) having the lowest levels of Human Development in the country.

Administrative units by Human Development Index (international HDI)

This is a list of administrative units of Pakistan by Human Development Index as of 2018.[1]

Rank Region HDI (2018)[1]
Change from
previous year		 Comparable countries[2]
Medium human development
1 Islamabad Capital Territory 0.678 0.010  Morocco
2 Azad Jammu & Kashmir 0.611 0.004  São Tomé and Príncipe
3 Gilgit-Baltistan 0.593 0.006  Zambia
4 Punjab 0.567 0.002  Cameroon/ Zimbabwe
–  Pakistan (average) 0.561 0.003  Cameroon/ Zimbabwe
Low human development
5 Sindh 0.533 0.002  Nigeria
6 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.529 0.001  Tanzania/ Uganda
7 Balochistan 0.477 0.002  Ethiopia
8 FATA 0.466 0.003  Gambia/ Guinea

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Pakistan Provinces since 1990.

Unit [1] HDI 1990 HDI 1995 HDI 2000 HDI 2005 HDI 2010 HDI 2012 HDI 2015 HDI 2018
Azad Jammu & Kashmir 0.469 0.503 0.533 0.597 0.617 0.619 0.618 0.611
Balochistan 0.383 0.406 0.425 0.471 0.464 0.453 0.468 0.477
FATA 0.378 0.400 0.418 0.463 0.474 0.474 0.472 0.466
Gilgit-Baltistan 0.428 0.451 0.472 0.522 0.536 0.536 0.569 0.593
Islamabad (ICT) 0.509 0.540 0.568 0.631 0.692 0.722 0.703 0.678
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 0.396 0.419 0.438 0.485 0.514 0.525 0.529 0.529
Punjab 0.393 0.415 0.435 0.482 0.522 0.540 0.557 0.567
Sindh 0.390 0.414 0.435 0.484 0.515 0.528 0.534 0.533
Pakistan 0.404 0.429 0.449 0.498 0.524 0.533 0.550 0.561

See also

References
  1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. "Human Development Report 2019 Overview" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. pp. 22–25. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
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