List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index - Wikipedia List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( June 2017 ) States and union territories of India ordered by Area Population Abbreviations Capitals Child Nutrition Crime rate Economic Freedom Electricity penetration Fertility rate Forest cover GDP ( per capita ) Highest point HIV awareness HDI Home ownership Household size Human Trafficking Institutional delivery Life expectancy at birth Literacy rate Media exposure Number of Vehicles Number of voters Obesity Open defecation Origin of name Places of worship Poverty Power capacity Riots rate Safe Drinking Water Safety of Women School Enrollment Rate Sex ratio Suicides Tax revenues Ease of Doing Business TV ownership Toilet availability Transport network Underweight people Unemployment Vaccination coverage HDI data for Indian states and union territories in 2015. The national average HDI for India in 2008 was 0.467. By 2010, its average HDI had risen to 0.519. UNDP, the sponsor of Human Development Index methodology since 1990, reported India 's HDI to be 0.554 for 2012, an 18 % increase over its 2008 HDI. United Nations Declared India 's HDI is 0.586 in 2014, an 5.77 % increase over 2012. As for the year 2016, HDI for India stood at 0.624. There are many ways to calculate HDI, and its calculation is sensitive to base data and assumptions. Using another approach, UNDP India and Government of India calculated the HDI nationwide average to be 0.605 in 2006. This data was published by the Indian Government. Note that the 2007 - 2008 HDI values in the table below is not based on income as is the UNDP standard practice for global comparisons, but on estimated consumption expenditure -- an assumption which underestimates the HDI than actual. Further, data was unavailable for the following states and union territories : Chandigarh, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Rank State / Union Territory consumption based HDI ( 2007 -- 08 ) HDI 2015 Kerala 0.790 0.712 Delhi 0.750 N / A Himachal Pradesh 0.652 0.670 Goa 0.617 N / A Punjab 0.605 0.6614 6 NE ( excluding Assam ) 0.573 N / A 7 Maharashtra 0.572 0.6659 8 Tamil Nadu 0.570 0.6663 9 Haryana 0.552 0.6613 10 Jammu and Kashmir 0.542 0.649 11 Gujarat 0.527 0.6164 12 Karnataka 0.519 0.6176 -- National average 0.513 0.6087 13 West Bengal 0.492 0.604 14 Uttarakhand 0.490 N / A 15 Andhra Pradesh 0.473 0.6165 16 Assam 0.444 0.556 17 Rajasthan 0.434 0.577 18 Uttar Pradesh 0.380 0.542 19 Jharkhand 0.376 N / A 20 Madhya Pradesh 0.375 0.557 21 Bihar 0.367 0.536 22 Odisha 0.362 0.557 23 Chhattisgarh 0.358 N / A Trend analysis Compared with the previous Indian National Human Development Reports and the latest state - level government statistical report, India has significantly improved its HDI in all of its administrative subdivisions : Legend Very High / High Human Development Index 0.850 -- 0.899 0.800 -- 0.849 Medium human development index 0.750 -- 0.799 0.700 -- 0.749 0.650 -- 0.699 0.600 -- 0.649 0.550 -- 0.599 0.500 -- 0.549 Low human development index 0.450 -- 0.499 0.400 -- 0.449 0.350 -- 0.399 0.300 -- 0.349 0.250 -- 0.299 ≤ 0.250 Lack of information Human Development Index map for Indian states in 2006, as calculated by Government of India and UNDP India. This is a list of Indian states by their respective Human Development Index ( HDI ), as of 2008. Kerala stands first in Human Development Index among the states in India. 1981 to 2005 human development index in India National Human Development Report 1981 ( 1981 data ) National Human Development Report 1991 ( 1991 data ) National Human Development Report 2001 ( 2001 data ) State - level Census and Statistics 2008 report ( 2005 data ) National Human Development Report 2011 ( 2007 -- 2008 data ) References ^ Jump up to : `` India Human Development Report 2011 ( Towards Social Inclusion ) '' ( PDF ). IAMR, Planning Commission, Government of India. p. 257. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2014. Jump up ^ `` Selected Socio - Economic Statistics India, 2011 '' ( PDF ). Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India. October 2011. Table 11.1, page 165. Retrieved 24 January 2015. 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Question: most developed state in india according to un
Answer: Kerala