List of administrative divisions of Vietnam by Human Development Index

This is a list of regions and administrative divisions of Vietnam by Human Development Index as of 2023.

Regions

This is a list of the Regions of Vietnam by Human Development Index as of 2025 with data for the year 2023.

Rank	Region	HDI (2023)	Comparable Countries
Very High Human Development
1	Red River Delta	0.809	Albania
High human development
2	Southeast	0.778	Ukraine
3	North Central Coast, South Central Coast	0.774	Sri Lanka
—	Vietnam	0.766	Maldives
4	Northeast, Northwest	0.724	Indonesia
5	Mekong River Delta
6	Central Highlands	0.723	Suriname

Divisions

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of Vietnam by Human Development Index as of 2023. In this table, (M) denotes municipalities.

Rank	Province, or municipality	HDI
Very high human development
1	Hà Nội (M)	0.833
2	Quảng Ninh	0.809
3	Hồ Chí Minh City (M)	0.808
4	Hải Phòng (M)	0.801
High human development
5	Đà Nẵng (M)	0.776
6	Bắc Ninh	0.775
7	Hưng Yên	0.768
–	Vietnam (average)	0.766
8	Phú Thọ	0.757
9	Đồng Nai	0.756
10	Ninh Bình	0.753
11	Hà Tĩnh	0.745
12	Thanh Hóa	0.742
13	Nghệ An	0.738
14	Thái Nguyên	0.732
15&16	Khánh Hòa	0.730
15&16	Tây Ninh	0.730
17	Huế (M)	0.727
18&19	Lâm Đồng	0.722
18&19	Quảng Trị	0.722
20	Cần Thơ (M)	0.720
21	Vĩnh Long	0.716
22&23	Đắk Lắk	0.715
22&23	Quảng Ngãi	0.715
24	Đồng Tháp	0.711
25	Gia Lai	0.710
26	Lai Châu	0.709
27	Cà Mau	0.701
Medium human development
28	An Giang	0.689
29	Sơn La	0.684
30	Cao Bằng	0.678
31&32	Lào Cai	0.674
31&32	Tuyên Quang	0.674
33	Lạng Sơn	0.668
34	Điện Biên	0.633

See also

• List of countries by Human Development Index