This is a list of German states by Human Development Index (HDI) as of 2021.^[1]

Rank	State	HDI (2021)
Very high human development
1	Hamburg	0.972
2	Berlin	0.959
3	Baden-Württemberg	0.956
4	Bremen	0.954
5	Bavaria	0.950
	Hesse
—	Germany (average)	0.942
7	North Rhine-Westphalia	0.939
8	Saxony	0.933
9	Saarland	0.931
10	Lower Saxony	0.930
11	Rhineland-Palatinate	0.929
12	Thuringia	0.923
13	Schleswig-Holstein	0.921
14	Brandenburg	0.918
15	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.916
16	Saxony-Anhalt	0.911

Development 1995–2015

Human Development Index of German states since 1995.

State	HDI 1995	HDI 2000	HDI 2005	HDI 2010	HDI 2015	Increase 1995–2015
Hamburg	0.874	0.896	0.934	0.953	0.964	9.0%
Baden-Württemberg	0.847	0.872	0.905	0.926	0.941	9.4%
Bremen	0.853	0.879	0.910	0.930	0.938	8.5%
Hesse	0.849	0.875	0.908	0.926	0.935	8.6%
Bavaria	0.835	0.861	0.894	0.916	0.933	9.8%
Berlin	0.840	0.866	0.897	0.919	0.932	9.2%
North Rhine-Westphalia	0.834	0.860	0.891	0.910	0.924	9.0%
Saxony	0.830	0.855	0.887	0.904	0.916	8.6%
Rhineland-Palatinate	0.823	0.849	0.879	0.901	0.914	9.1%
Saarland	0.824	0.849	0.880	0.901	0.914	9.0%
Lower Saxony	0.819	0.844	0.875	0.896	0.912	9.3%
Schleswig-Holstein	0.820	0.846	0.877	0.893	0.907	8.7%
Thuringia	0.815	0.847	0.873	0.892	0.906	9.1%
Brandenburg	0.811	0.836	0.868	0.888	0.902	9.1%
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	0.806	0.831	0.863	0.884	0.897	9.1%
Saxony-Anhalt	0.807	0.832	0.862	0.883	0.895	8.8%
Germany	0.834	0.860	0.892	0.912	0.926	9.2%