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(Redirected from List of Latin American subnational entities by HDI)
With information from the United Nations Development Programme from each country. Data of Mexico and Peru are for 2004, Argentina 2005, Colombia 2001 and Brazil 2000.
Countries where information for their subnational entities is not available are considered as a whole. Data come from Wikipedia.
All the new departments created by the Colombian Constitution of 1991 (Amazonas, Arauca, Casanare, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo, San Andrés and Providencia, Vaupés, Vichada) have a HDI of 0.755, as reported by the UNDP.

Rank	State/Province	Country	HDI	Population	Area
1	Distrito Federal	Mexico	0.883	8,720,916	1,479
2	(Argentina)	Argentina	0.863	39,000,000	2,780,400
3	(Chile)	Chile	0.854	16,432,674	756,950
4	Nuevo León	Mexico	0.8451	4,199,292	64,924
5	Brazilian Federal District	Brazil	0.844	2,051,146	353.5
6	(Uruguay)	Uruguay	0.840	3,463,000	176,220
7	(Costa Rica)	Costa Rica	0.838	4,401,000	51,100
8	Coahuila	Mexico	0.8284	2,495,200	149,982
9	Baja California Sur	Mexico	0.8269	512,170	73,475
10	Aguascalientes	Mexico	0.8246	1,065,416	5,471
11	Quintana Roo	Mexico	0.8238	1,135,309	50,212
12	Baja California	Mexico	0.8233	2,844,469	69,921
13	Chihuahua	Mexico	0.8224	3,241,444	244,938
14	Santa Catarina	Brazil	0.822	5,098,448	5.6
15	São Paulo	Brazil	0.820	37,032,403	149.2
16	Campeche	Mexico	0.8189	754,730	50,812
17	Distrito Capital	Colombia	0.817	7,117,984	1,587 km²
18	Cuba	Cuba	0.817	11,345,670	110,860
19	Sonora	Mexico	0.8163	2,394,861	182,052
20	Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil	0.814	10,187,798	36.2
21	Tamaulipas	Mexico	0.8111	3,024,238	79,384
22	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	0.807	14,391,282	328.6
23	(Panama)	Panama	0.804	3,232,000	75,517
24	Querétaro	Mexico	0.8015	1,598,139	11,449
25	Jalisco	Mexico	0.8007	6,752,113	80,386
26	Colima	Mexico	0.8001	567,996	5,191
27	Durango	Mexico	0.7910	1,509,117	123,181
28	Paraná	Brazil	0.787	9,563,458	48.0
29	Valle del Cauca	Colombia	0.786	4,524,678	22,140 km²
30	Morelos	Mexico	0.7856	1,612,899	4,950
31	Sinaloa	Mexico	0.7800	2,608,442	58,328
32	Santander	Colombia	0.779	2,085,084	30,537 km²
33	Atlántico	Colombia	0.779	2,365,663	3,388 km²
34	México	Mexico	0.7789	14,007,495	21,355
35	Mato Grosso do Sul	Brazil	0.778	2,078,001	5.8
36	Yucatán	Mexico	0.7778	1,818,948	38,402
37	Goiás	Brazil	0.776	5,003,228	14.7
38	Minas Gerais	Brazil	0.773	17,891,494	30.5
39	Mato Grosso	Brazil	0.773	2,504,353	2.8
40	Antioquia	Colombia	0.772	5,750,478	63,612 km²
41	(Venezuela)	Venezuela	0.772	25,730,435	916,445
42	Cundinamarca	Colombia	0.771	9,467,562	24,210 km²
43	San Luis Potosí	Mexico	0.7694	2,410,414	63,068
44	Tabasco	Mexico	0.7684	1,989,969	25,267
45	Guanajuato	Mexico	0.7662	4,893,812	30,491
46	Espírito Santo	Brazil	0.765	3,097,232	67.3
47	Nayarit	Mexico	0.7652	949,684	26,979
48	Tlaxcala	Mexico	0.7641	1,068,207	4,016
49	La Guajira	Colombia	0.760	524,619	20,848 km²
50	Puebla	Mexico	0.7598	5,383,133	33,902
51	Ecuador	Ecuador	0.759	13,228,000	256,370
52	Risaralda	Colombia	0.757	1,024,362	4,140 km²
53	Bolívar	Colombia	0.757	2,229,967	25,978 km²
54	Zacatecas	Mexico	0.7563	1,367,692	73,252
55	(Suriname)	Suriname	0.755	449,000	163,270
56	San Andrés and Providencia	Colombia	0.755	83,491	52 km²
57	Amazonas	Colombia	0.755	80,360	109,665 km²
58	Arauca	Colombia	0.755	282,302	23,818 km²
59	Casanare	Colombia	0.755	325,713	44,640 km²
60	Guainía	Colombia	0.755	43,314	72,238 km²
61	Guaviare	Colombia	0.755	133,236	53,460 km²
62	Putumayo	Colombia	0.755	378,483	24,885 km²
63	Vaupés	Colombia	0.755	33,152	54,135 km²
64	Vichada	Colombia	0.755	97,276	100,242 km²
65	(Paraguay)	Paraguay	0.755	6,158,000	406,750
66	Amapá	Brazil	0.753	477,032	3.3
67	Meta	Colombia	0.753	771,089	85,635 km²
68	(Belize)	Belize	0.753	287,730	22,966
69	Tolima	Colombia	0.752	1,312,972	23,562 km²
70	Hidalgo	Mexico	0.7515	2,345,514	20,813
71	Caldas	Colombia	0.751	1,170,187	7,888 km²
72	Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	0.749	8,895,000	48,730
73	Roraima	Brazil	0.746	324,397	1.4
74	Veracruz	Mexico	0.7457	7,110,214	71,699
75	Michoacán	Mexico	0.7422	3,966,073	59,928
76	Huila	Colombia	0.742	994,218	19,890 km²
77	Córdoba	Colombia	0.741	1,392,905	25,020 km²
78	Boyacá	Colombia	0.739	1,411,239	23,189 km²
79	Rondônia	Brazil	0.735	1,379,787	5.8
80	Magdalena	Colombia	0.733	1,403,318	23,188 km²
81	Caquetá	Colombia	0.733	463,333	88,965 km²
82	Quindío	Colombia	0.732	613,375	1,845 km²
83	Norte de Santander	Colombia	0.725	1,493,932	21,658 km²
84	Pará	Brazil	0.723	6,192,307	5.0
85	Guerrero	Mexico	0.7296	3,115,202	64,281
86	Sucre	Colombia	0.725	868,648	10,917 km²
87	Cesar	Colombia	0.722	1,050,303	22,905 km²
88	(El Salvador)	El Salvador	0.722	6,881,000	21,040
89	(Guyana)	Guyana	0.720	751,000	214,970
90	Lima	Peru	0.7196	7,363,069	2,672.28
91	Oaxaca	Mexico	0.7164	3,506,821	93,952
92	Amazonas	Brazil	0.713	2,812,557	1.8
93	Cauca	Colombia	0.713	1,363,054	29,308 km²
94	Callao (Constitutional Province)	Peru	0.7120	813,264	146.98
95	Tocantins	Brazil	0.710	1,157,098	4.2
96	Chiapas	Mexico	0.7076	4,293,459	74,211
97	Nariño	Colombia	0.707	1,775,139	33,268 km²
98	Rio Grande do Norte	Brazil	0.705	2,776,782	52.3
99	Pernambuco	Brazil	0.705	7,918,344	80.4
100	Ceará	Brazil	0.700	7,340,661	50.4
101	Acre	Brazil	0.697	557,226	3.7
102	(Nicaragua)	Nicaragua	0.690	5,487,000	129,494
103	Bahia	Brazil	0.688	13,070,250	23.2
104	(Bolivia)	Bolivia	0.687	9,182,000	1,098,581
105	Sergipe	Brazil	0.682	1,784,475	81.3
106	Chocó	Colombia	0.680	413,173	46,530 km²
107	Lima Provincias	Peru	0.6689	780,881	32,129.31
108	(Honduras)	Honduras	0.667	7,205,000	112,492
109	Tacna	Peru	0.6654	317,619	16,062.62
110	Guatemala	Guatemala	0.663	12,599,000	108,890
111	Ica	Peru	0.6620	687,334	21,327.83
112	Paraíba	Brazil	0.661	3,443,825	61.1
113	Piauí	Brazil	0.656	2,843,278	11.3
114	Arequipa	Peru	0.6526	1,140,214	63,345.39
115	Moquegua	Peru	0.6499	156,750	15,733.97
116	Alagoas	Brazil	0.649	2,822,621	101.5
117	Maranhão	Brazil	0.636	5,651,475	17.0
118	Lambayeque	Peru	0.6165	1,121,358	14,231.3
119	Tumbes	Peru	0.6095	215,634	4,669.2
120	Madre de Dios	Peru	0.6010	99,452	85,300.54
121	Junín	Peru	0.5955	1,246,663	44,197.23
122	Pasco	Peru	0.5908	264,702	25,319.59
123	La Libertad	Peru	0.5851	1,539,774	25,499.9
124	Ucayali	Peru	0.5629	456,340	102,410.55
125	Ancash	Peru	0.5577	1,107,828	35,039.19
126	Piura	Peru	0.5557	1,636,047	35,892.49
127	Puno	Peru	0.5495	1,263,995	71,999
128	Loreto	Peru	0.5248	907,341	368,851.95
129	San Martín	Peru	0.5247	757,740	51,253.31
130	Cusco	Peru	0.5112	1,208,689	71,986.5
131	Ayacucho	Peru	0.5095	619,522	43,814.8
132	Amazonas	Peru	0.5019	428,095	39,249.13
133	Cajamarca	Peru	0.4910	1,498,161	33,317.54
134	Apurímac	Peru	0.4877	463,131	20,895.79
135	Huánuco	Peru	0.4760	811,865	36,848.85
136	Huancavelica	Peru	0.4641	385,162	22,131