List of administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China by Human Development Index

Province-level Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China by:
Area
Population
Population density
GDP
GDP per capita
HDI
Highest point
Natural growth rate
Life expectancy
Illiteracy rate
Historical capitals

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, in order of their Human Development Index (HDI). The figures come from the 《中国人类发展报告2005》(2005 China Human Development Report), published by the China Development Research Foundation. All figures are from 2003, except for life expectancy, which uses 2000 values. The report did not cover Hong Kong and Macau, which are special administrative regions of the PRC, nor the territories administered by the Republic of China (ROC), namely Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu.

The 2003 HDI values of Hong Kong, Macau, the ROC, and neighboring countries, as given in the 2005 UN Human Development Report, are included for comparison purposes.

Map showing the HDI of the first-order administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China.

	HDI (2003)		Life expectancy	Adult literacy rate	Gross enrollment index	GDP per capita (PPP)
	Value	Rank	Years	%	%	US$
High human development
Japan	0.943		82.0	(99.0)	84	27,967
Hong Kong	0.916		81.6	93.5	74	27,179
Republic of China (Taiwan)	0.916		76.1	97.0	97	23,911
Shanghai	0.909	1	79.05	94.12	84.0	24,580
Macau	0.909
Singapore	0.907		78.7	92.5	87	24,481
South Korea	0.901		77.0	97.9	93	17,971
Beijing	0.882	2	76.85	95.39	87.1	16,868
Brunei Darussalam	0.866		76.4	92.7	74	19,210
Tianjin	0.855	3	75.96	93.64	79.8	13,959
Zhejiang	0.817	4	75.10	86.77	77.3	10,600
Liaoning	0.808	5	74.35	95.26	73.6	7,502
Guangdong	0.807	6	74.96	92.45	65.9	9,056
Jiangsu	0.805	7	75.58	85.54	75.9	8,844
Medium human development
Malaysia	0.796		73.2	88.7	71	9,512
Russia	0.795		65.3	99.4	90	9,230
Heilongjiang	0.786	8	74.28	94.21	66.5	6,111
Fujian	0.784	9	74.26	86.45	67.5	7,881
Thailand	0.778		70.0	92.6	73	7,595
Jilin	0.776	10	73.26	96.11	70.1	4,913
Shandong	0.776	11	74.02	86.33	66.2	7,188
Hebei	0.766	12	72.63	92.65	64.8	5,531
Kazakhstan	0.761		63.2	99.5	85	6,671
Hainan	0.761	13	75.75	90.89	60.1	4,375
the Philippines	0.758		70.4	92.6	82	4,321
Xinjiang	0.757	14	72.26	93.06	61.9	5,103
Hubei	0.755	15	72.72	88.17	71.7	4,741
Shanxi	0.753	16	72.15	94.21	70.0	3,912
Hunan	0.751	17	72.63	91.53	69.9	3,974
National (Mainland only)	0.746	-	71.4	89.05	67.6	4,788
Chongqing	0.745	18	71.96	91.60	70.4	3,793
Henan	0.741	19	73.00	90.79	61.1	3,983
Inner Mongolia	0.738	20	70.73	86.33	69.5	4,722
Jiangxi	0.732	21	70.19	91.75	70.7	3,514
Guangxi	0.731	22	73.59	91.15	60.1	3,140
Shaanxi	0.729	23	71.11	88.09	72.5	3,409
Sichuan	0.728	24	71.94	88.27	67.3	3,377
Anhui	0.727	25	72.97	86.33	65.3	3,396
Ningxia	0.712	26	71.96	82.43	62.9	3,520
Vietnam	0.704		70.5	90.3	64	2,490
Kyrgyzstan	0.702		66.8	98.7	82	1,751
Qinghai	0.684	27	68.78	76.55	60.7	3,829
Mongolia	0.679		64.0	97.8	74	1,850
Gansu	0.675	28	68.82	79.67	65.3	2,642
Yunnan	0.657	29	66.37	78.50	57.4	2,979
Tajikistan	0.652		63.6	99.5	76	1,106
Guizhou	0.639	30	66.62	80.32	58.6	1,896
India	0.602		63.3	61.0	60	2,892
Tibet Autonomous Region	0.586	31	65.81	45.14	53.2	3,615
Myanmar	0.578		60.2	89.7	48
Laos	0.545		54.7	68.7	61	1,759
Bhutan	0.536		62.9	47.0	(49)	1,969
Nepal	0.526		61.6	48.6	61	1,420

*Source: United Nations Development Program - China [1]

*GDP per capita is calculated from urban disposable income and rural pure income

List of administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China by Human Development Index

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