List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index
Human Development Atlas
The methodology used by the UNDP to measure the HDI of all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and 27 federative units differs from that used for countries.

List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index

Section Title: Human Development Atlas
Table Section Text: The methodology used by the UNDP to measure the HDI of all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities and 27 federative units differs from that used for countries.

2010	2000	1991

Rank	Federative unit	HDI	E	I	L	HDI	E	I	L	HDI	E	I	L

1	Federal District	0.824	0.742	0.863	0.873	0.725	0.582	0.805	0.814	0.616	0.419	0.762	0.731

2	São Paulo	0.783	0.719	0.789	0.845	0.702	0.581	0.756	0.786	0.578	0.363	0.729	0.730

3	Santa Catarina	0.774	0.697	0.773	0.860	0.674	0.526	0.717	0.812	0.543	0.329	0.648	0.753

4	Rio de Janeiro	0.761	0.675	0.782	0.835	0.664	0.530	0.745	0.740	0.573	0.392	0.696	0.690

5	Paraná	0.749	0.668	0.757	0.830	0.650	0.522	0.704	0.747	0.507	0.298	0.644	0.679

6	Rio Grande do Sul	0.746	0.642	0.769	0.840	0.664	0.505	0.720	0.804	0.542	0.328	0.667	0.729

7	Espírito Santo	0.740	0.653	0.743	0.835	0.640	0.491	0.687	0.777	0.505	0.304	0.619	0.686

8	Goiás	0.735	0.646	0.742	0.827	0.615	0.439	0.686	0.773	0.487	0.273	0.633	0.668

9	Minas Gerais	0.731	0.638	0.730	0.838	0.624	0.470	0.680	0.759	0.478	0.257	0.618	0.689

10	Mato Grosso do Sul	0.729	0.629	0.740	0.833	0.613	0.445	0.687	0.752	0.488	0.259	0.641	0.699

11	Mato Grosso	0.725	0.635	0.732	0.821	0.601	0.426	0.689	0.740	0.449	0.221	0.627	0.654

12	Amapá	0.708	0.629	0.694	0.813	0.577	0.424	0.638	0.711	0.472	0.254	0.620	0.668

13	Roraima	0.707	0.628	0.695	0.809	0.598	0.457	0.652	0.717	0.459	0.240	0.643	0.628

14	Tocantins	0.699	0.624	0.690	0.793	0.525	0.348	0.605	0.688	0.369	0.155	0.549	0.589

15	Rondônia	0.690	0.577	0.712	0.800	0.537	0.345	0.654	0.688	0.407	0.181	0.585	0.635

16	Rio Grande do Norte	0.684	0.597	0.678	0.792	0.552	0.396	0.608	0.700	0.428	0.242	0.547	0.591

17	Ceará	0.682	0.615	0.651	0.793	0.541	0.377	0.588	0.713	0.405	0.204	0.532	0.613

18	Amazonas	0.674	0.561	0.677	0.805	0.515	0.324	0.608	0.692	0.430	0.204	0.605	0.645

19	Pernambuco	0.673	0.574	0.673	0.789	0.544	0.372	0.615	0.705	0.440	0.232	0.569	0.617

20	Sergipe	0.665	0.560	0.672	0.781	0.518	0.343	0.596	0.678	0.413	0.211	0.552	0.581

21	Acre	0.663	0.559	0.671	0.777	0.517	0.325	0.612	0.694	0.402	0.176	0.574	0.645

22	Bahia	0.660	0.555	0.663	0.783	0.512	0.332	0.594	0.680	0.386	0.182	0.543	0.582

23	Paraíba	0.658	0.555	0.656	0.783	0.506	0.331	0.582	0.672	0.382	0.191	0.515	0.565

24	Pará	0.646	0.528	0.646	0.789	0.518	0.319	0.601	0.725	0.413	0.194	0.567	0.640

25	Piauí	0.646	0.547	0.635	0.777	0.484	0.301	0.556	0.676	0.362	0.164	0.488	0.595

26	Maranhão	0.639	0.562	0.612	0.757	0.476	0.312	0.531	0.649	0.357	0.173	0.478	0.551

27	Alagoas	0.631	0.520	0.641	0.755	0.471	0.282	0.574	0.647	0.370	0.174	0.527	0.552

Average	0.727	0.637	0.739	0.816	0.612	0.456	0.692	0.727	0.493	0.279	0.647	0.662

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São Paulo has the second highest Human Development Index.

final_sentence: São Paulo has the second highest Human Development Index.