List Of Philippine Provinces And Regions By Human Development Index

The HDI is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

The HDI values below are based on the preliminary estimates of the 2019 Provincial Human Development Index by the Philippine Statistics Authority, as well as the Global Data Lab estimates published by the Radboud University Nijmegen Center for Economics.

Rank	Region	2023 HDI (PSA)	Category (PSA)	2021 HDI (GDL)	Category (GDL)
1	Metro Manila	0.851	High	0.760	High
2	Calabarzon	0.795	High	0.724	High
3	Cordillera Administrative Region	0.777	High	0.723	High
4	Central Luzon	0.765	High	0.713	High
5	Western Visayas	0.761	High	0.710	High
6	Ilocos Region	0.743	High	0.706	High
–	Philippines (average)	0.718	High	0.699	Medium
7	Cagayan Valley	0.709	High	0.686	Medium
8	Central Visayas	0.704	High		Medium
9	Caraga	0.698	Medium		Medium
10	Davao Region	0.697	Medium	0.684	Medium
11	Eastern Visayas		Medium	0.681	Medium
12	Northern Mindanao	0.694	Medium		Medium
13	Bicol Region	0.687	Medium	0.673	Medium
14	Soccsksargen	0.685	Medium	0.651	Medium
15	Mimaropa	0.673	Medium	0.670	Medium
16	Zamboanga Peninsula	0.665	Medium	0.668	Medium
17	Bangsamoro	0.646	Medium	0.583	Medium

All provinces surrounding Metro Manila have a high HDI value. Metro Manila, Benguet, Iloilo and Rizal already have very high HDI values (≥0.800). The southern region of Mindanao has three of the provinces with the lowest (low) HDI values (<0.550).

The HDI values below are based on the preliminary estimates of the 2019 Provincial Human Development Index by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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