# List of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index

This article presents a list of Japanese regions by Human Development Index as of 2021. This article also includes a list of Japanese prefectures by historical HDI in 1990, 1995 and 2000 further below.

## Japanese regions by HDI (2022)

This is a list regions of Japan by Human Development Index calculated using the new methodology.
| Rank | Region | HDI (2022) |
| Very high human development |||
| 1 | Southern Kantō, Koshin (Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano) | 0.948 |
| 2 | Kansai (Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama) | 0.932 |
| 3 | Tōkai (Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie) | 0.930 |
| – | Japan | 0.927 |
| 4 | Chūgoku (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi) | 0.917 |
| 5 | Northern Kantō (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma) | 0.909 |
| 6 | Hokuriku (Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui) | 0.904 |
| 7 | Shikoku (Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kōchi) | 0.900 |
| 7 | Kyushu (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Ōita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa) | 0.900 |
| 9 | Hokkaido | 0.897 |
| 10 | Tōhoku (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima) | 0.890 |

## Japanese prefectures by past HDI using old methodology

This is a list of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index calculated using the old methodology. This data was taken from the 2007 paper "Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan" (Tashi Choden, Takayoshi Kusago, Kokoro Shirai, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Osaka University). The 2022 HDI is roughly calculated by the editor, with errors approximately within ±0.015.
| Rank | Prefecture | HDI (1990) | HDI (1995) | HDI (2000) | HDI (2022) |
| 1 | Tokyo | 0.9296 | 0.9448 | 0.9667 | 0.977 |
| 2 | Aichi | 0.9115 | 0.9265 | 0.9460 | 0.929 |
| 3 | Shiga | 0.9080 | 0.9229 | 0.9426 | 0.926 |
| 4 | Shizuoka | 0.9056 | 0.9204 | 0.9402 | 0.916 |
| 5 | Fukui | 0.9027 | 0.9204 | 0.9401 | 0.911 |
| 6 | Toyama | 0.9031 | 0.9205 | 0.9392 | 0.912 |
| 7 | Osaka | 0.9003 | 0.9177 | 0.9390 | 0.925 |
| 8 | Nagano | 0.8980 | 0.9148 | 0.9365 | 0.925 |
| 9 | Ishikawa | 0.8991 | 0.9163 | 0.9364 | 0.909 |
| 10 | Hiroshima | 0.9032 | 0.9170 | 0.9361 | 0.925 |
| 11 | Kyoto | 0.8952 | 0.9123 | 0.9333 | 0.929 |
| 12 | Mie | 0.8934 | 0.9123 | 0.9329 | 0.911 |
| 13 | Kanagawa | 0.8996 | 0.9119 | 0.93240 | 0.933 |
| 14 | Yamanashi | 0.8944 | 0.9094 | 0.9319 | 0.931 |
| 15 | Okayama | 0.8992 | 0.9152 | 0.9316 | 0.916 |
| 16 | Kagawa | 0.8945 | 0.9122 | 0.9304 | 0.907 |
| 17 | Gunma | 0.8957 | 0.9117 | 0.9303 | 0.904 |
| 18 | Tochigi | 0.8955 | 0.9107 | 0.9294 | 0.906 |
| 19 | Niigata | 0.8921 | 0.9095 | 0.9290 | 0.898 |
| 20 | Hyōgo | 0.8950 | 0.9086 | 0.9290 | 0.918 |
| 21 | Ōita | 0.8891 | 0.9076 | 0.9285 | 0.906 |
| 22 | Gifu | 0.8921 | 0.9070 | 0.9263 | 0.907 |
| 23 | Hokkaidō | 0.8863 | 0.9068 | 0.9260 | 0.893 |
| 24 | Ibaraki | 0.8928 | 0.9080 | 0.9259 | 0.911 |
| 25 | Yamaguchi | 0.8924 | 0.9084 | 0.9258 | 0.912 |
| 26 | Miyagi | 0.8926 | 0.9071 | 0.9247 | 0.903 |
| 27 | Fukushima | 0.8880 | 0.9044 | 0.9241 | 0.895 |
| 28 | Tottori | 0.8887 | 0.9045 | 0.9239 | 0.900 |
| 29 | Shimane | 0.8858 | 0.9021 | 0.9231 | 0.902 |
| 30 | Fukuoka | 0.8896 | 0.9061 | 0.9228 | 0.907 |
| 31 | Kumamoto | 0.8872 | 0.9045 | 0.9225 | 0.900 |
| 32 | Ehime | 0.8862 | 0.9047 | 0.9221 | 0.896 |
| 33 | Chiba | 0.8868 | 0.9019 | 0.9219 | 0.915 |
| 34 | Yamagata | 0.8855 | 0.9014 | 0.9216 | 0.891 |
| 35 | Saga | 0.8810 | 0.9021 | 0.9189 | 0.896 |
| 36 | Iwate | 0.8792 | 0.8998 | 0.9186 | 0.888 |
| 37 | Tokushima | 0.8831 | 0.9005 | 0.9182 | 0.906 |
| 38 | Nara | 0.8794 | 0.8944 | 0.9169 | 0.904 |
| 39 | Saitama | 0.8811 | 0.8956 | 0.9166 | 0.915 |
| 40 | Kōchi | 0.8781 | 0.8964 | 0.9156 | 0.889 |
| 41 | Wakayama | 0.8770 | 0.8957 | 0.9155 | 0.898 |
| 42 | Miyazaki | 0.8780 | 0.8959 | 0.9148 | 0.888 |
| 43 | Akita | 0.8777 | 0.8951 | 0.9142 | 0.888 |
| 44 | Nagasaki | 0.8749 | 0.8949 | 0.9127 | 0.890 |
| 45 | Kagoshima | 0.8762 | 0.8938 | 0.9127 | 0.892 |
| 46 | Okinawa | 0.8810 | 0.8940 | 0.9111 | 0.888 |
| 47 | Aomori | 0.8698 | 0.8877 | 0.9065 | 0.876 |