List of Nigerian states by Human Development Index

This article presents two lists of Nigerian states by Human Development Index (HDI), including the Federal Capital Territory. The first list from the Radboud University Nijmegen ranks the states by the international HDI-methology. The second list ranks the states by an own methology from the United Nations Development Programme.

List (2022 data, Radboud University)

Nigerian states by Human Development Index as of 2022, including the Federal Capital Territory.

Nigerian States HDI in 2019

  0.651 to 0.700

  0.601 to 0.650

  0.551 to 0.600

  0.501 to 0.550

  0.451 to 0.500

  0.401 to 0.450

  0.351 to 0.400

Rank	State	HDI (2022)	Similar Country
High human development
1	Lagos	0.721	Lebanon
2	Ebonyi	0.706	Jamaica
Medium human development
3	Imo	0.693	Gabon
4	Federal Capital Territory	0.678	Tajikistan
5	Cross River	0.675	El Salvador
6	Anambra	0.674
7	Enugu	0.667	Nicaragua
8	Edo	0.633	Micronesia
9	Kogi	0.625	Honduras
10	Abia	0.622	Honduras Laos
11	Ekiti	0.612	São Tomé and Príncipe
12	Ondo	0.611	Eswatini Namibia
13	Delta	0.607	Myanmar
	Osun
15	Oyo	0.603	Ghana
16	Akwa Ibom	0.602
17	Rivers	0.601	Nepal Kenya
18	Kwara	0.597	Cambodia
19	Benue	0.582	Comoros
20	Bayelsa	0.573	Zambia
21	Ogun	0.569
22	Plateau	0.563	Solomon Islands
Low human development
23	Nasarawa	0.549	Uganda Zimbabwe Rwanda
–	Nigeria (average)	0.548	Rwanda
24	Kaduna	0.545	Togo
25	Adamawa	0.539	Pakistan Mauritania
26	Taraba	0.527	Lesotho
27	Niger	0.523
28	Kano	0.482	Guinea-Bissau DR Congo
29	Gombe	0.466	Kingdom of Afghanistan
30	Borno	0.464
31	Yobe	0.439	Burkina Faso
32	Katsina	0.431
33	Sokoto	0.397	Niger Chad
34	Zamfara	0.392
35	Bauchi	0.372	Somalia
36	Jigawa	0.371
37	Kebbi	0.366

List (2016, UNDP)

Nigerian states by Human Development Index as of 2016, including the Federal Capital Territory.

Rank	State	HDI (2016)	Longevity Index	Education Index	GNI per capita (in USD)
1	Lagos	0.652	0.459	1.007	7,972
2	Federal Capital Territory	0.629	0.506	0.815	8,174
3	Bayelsa	0.591	0.475	0.926	3,441
4	Akwa Ibom	0.564	0.491	0.905	2,259
5	Ekiti	0.561	0.522	0.894	1,898
6	Delta	0.556	0.459	0.906	2,408
7	Cross River	0.551	0.538	0.857	1,720
8	Ogun	0.549	0.522	0.780	2,297
9	Rivers	0.542	0.427	0.922	2,264
10	Abia	0.541	0.506	0.881	1,629
11	Enugu	0.541	0.506	0.894	1,573
12	Edo	0.530	0.475	0.849	1,798
13	Imo	0.518	0.522	0.916	1,080
14	Osun	0.512	0.506	0.855	1,225
15	Kwara	0.511	0.506	0.697	1,910
–	Nigeria	0.511	0.459	0.797	1,756
16	Nasarawa	0.506	0.475	0.786	1,562
17	Ondo	0.500	0.506	0.871	1,031
18	Anambra	0.471	0.443	0.921	860
19	Plateau	0.463	0.411	0.766	1,261
20	Benue	0.462	0.427	0.806	1,053
21	Taraba	0.461	0.427	0.755	1,178
22	Kogi	0.451	0.411	0.857	883
23	Oyo	0.440	0.491	0.683	851
24	Ebonyi	0.434	0.443	0.763	788
25	Adamawa	0.429	0.364	0.661	1,369
26	Kaduna	0.404	0.396	0.642	885
27	Gombe	0.401	0.443	0.492	1,113
28	Niger	0.399	0.475	0.560	772
29	Kebbi	0.382	0.506	0.396	988
30	Jigawa	0.360	0.427	0.431	841
31	Kano	0.359	0.427	0.496	676
32	Zamfara	0.339	0.475	0.424	575
33	Borno	0.328	0.364	0.587	475
34	Yobe	0.325	0.380	0.330	967
35	Bauchi	0.323	0.396	0.415	626
36	Katsina	0.303	0.459	0.440	400
37	Sokoto	0.291	0.475	0.334	448