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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 edit

This is a list of provinces and administrative territories of Pakistan in order of their Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2021.

Rank	Region	HDI (2021)^[1]	Comparable Country (2021)
	Medium human development
1	Islamabad Capital Territory	0.659	Bangladesh
2	Azad Kashmir	0.612	Eswatini Namibia
3	Gilgit-Baltistan	0.595	Cambodia
3	Punjab	0.550	Ivory Coast
Low human development
	Pakistan (average)	0.544	Tanzania Togo
4	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0.527	Lesotho
5	Sindh	0.517	Lesotho
6	Balochistan	0.463	Guinea

Historical trends by UNDP reports (international HDI) edit

Human Development Index (by UN Method) of Pakistan's Administrative Units from 1990 - 2021.

Unit ^[1]	HDI 1990	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	HDI 2020	HDI 2021
Azad Kashmir	0.464	0.484	0.521	0.575	0.593	0.600	0.592	0.612
Balochistan	0.380	0.396	0.418	0.458	0.448	0.453	0.462	0.463
Gilgit-Baltistan	0.422	0.439	0.461	0.504	0.515	0.551	0.578	0.579
Islamabad (ICT)	0.505	0.529	0.560	0.617	0.672	0.688	0.658	0.659
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0.392	0.409	0.430	0.472	0.496	0.514	0.514	0.515
Punjab	0.388	0.404	0.426	0.468	0.503	0.540	0.549	0.550
Sindh	0.385	0.403	0.427	0.470	0.497	0.519	0.516	0.517
Pakistan	0.400	0.417	0.441	0.484	0.505	0.534	0.543	0.544