List of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index

This is a list regions of Japan by Human Development Index calculated using the new methodology.{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/JPN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|access-date=|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en}}

class="wikitable sortable"
class="sort" | Rank ! class="sort" | Region ! class="sort" | HDI (2022)
colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
1	style="text-align:left"| Southern Kantō, Koshin (Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano)	0.948
2	style="text-align:left"| Kansai (Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama)	0.932
3	style="text-align:left" | Tōkai (Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie)	0.930
style="background:#e6e6e6" | –	style="text-align:left" | {{flag|Japan}}	0.927
4	style="text-align:left"| Chūgoku (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi)	0.917
5	style="text-align:left"| Northern Kantō (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma)	0.909
6	style="text-align:left"| Hokuriku (Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui)	0.904
rowspan="2" | 7	style="text-align:left"| Shikoku (Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kōchi)	rowspan="2" | 0.900
style="text-align:left" | Kyushu (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Ōita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa)
9	style="text-align:left"| Hokkaido	0.897
10	style="text-align:left"| Tōhoku (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima)	0.890

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.

File:Japan HDI by Prefecture.png of Japan by HDI as of 2000.]]

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:0.5em auto" ! Rank !! Prefecture !! HDI (1990) !! HDI (1995) !! HDI (2000) !HDI (2022)
1	{{flag|Tokyo}}	0.9296	0.9448	0.9667 |0.977
2	{{flag|Aichi Prefecture|name=Aichi}}	0.9115	0.9265	0.9460 |0.929
3	{{flag|Shiga Prefecture|name=Shiga}}	0.9080	0.9229	0.9426 |0.926
4	{{flag|Shizuoka Prefecture|name=Shizuoka}}	0.9056	0.9204	0.9402 |0.916
5	{{flag|Fukui Prefecture|name=Fukui}}	0.9027	0.9204	0.9401 |0.911
6	{{flag|Toyama Prefecture|name=Toyama}}	0.9031	0.9205	0.9392 |0.912
7	{{flag|Osaka Prefecture|name=Osaka}}	0.9003	0.9177	0.9390 |0.925
8	{{flag|Nagano Prefecture|name=Nagano}}	0.8980	0.9148	0.9365 |0.925
9	{{flag|Ishikawa Prefecture|name=Ishikawa}}	0.8991	0.9163	0.9364 |0.909
10	{{flag|Hiroshima Prefecture|name=Hiroshima}}	0.9032	0.9170	0.9361 |0.925
11	{{flag|Kyoto Prefecture|name=Kyoto}}	0.8952	0.9123	0.9333 |0.929
12	{{flag|Mie Prefecture|name=Mie}}	0.8934	0.9123	0.9329 |0.911
13	{{flag|Kanagawa Prefecture|name=Kanagawa}}	0.8996	0.9119	0.93240 |0.933
14	{{flag|Yamanashi Prefecture|name=Yamanashi}}	0.8944	0.9094	0.9319 |0.931
15	{{flag|Okayama Prefecture|name=Okayama}}	0.8992	0.9152	0.9316 |0.916
16	{{flag|Kagawa Prefecture|name=Kagawa}}	0.8945	0.9122	0.9304 |0.907
17	{{flag|Gunma Prefecture|name=Gunma}}	0.8957	0.9117	0.9303 |0.904
18	{{flag|Tochigi Prefecture|name=Tochigi}}	0.8955	0.9107	0.9294 |0.906
19	{{flag|Niigata Prefecture|name=Niigata}}	0.8921	0.9095	0.9290 |0.898
20	{{flag|Hyōgo Prefecture|name=Hyōgo}}	0.8950	0.9086	0.9290 |0.918
21	{{flag|Ōita Prefecture|name=Ōita}}	0.8891	0.9076	0.9285 |0.906
22	{{flag|Gifu Prefecture|name=Gifu}}	0.8921	0.9070	0.9263 |0.907
23	{{flag|Hokkaidō}}	0.8863	0.9068	0.9260 |0.893
24	{{flag|Ibaraki Prefecture|name=Ibaraki}}	0.8928	0.9080	0.9259 |0.911
25	{{flag|Yamaguchi Prefecture|name=Yamaguchi}}	0.8924	0.9084	0.9258 |0.912
26	{{flag|Miyagi Prefecture|name=Miyagi}}	0.8926	0.9071	0.9247 |0.903
27	{{flag|Fukushima Prefecture|name=Fukushima}}	0.8880	0.9044	0.9241 |0.895
28	{{flag|Tottori Prefecture|name=Tottori}}	0.8887	0.9045	0.9239 |0.900
29	{{flag|Shimane Prefecture|name=Shimane}}	0.8858	0.9021	0.9231 |0.902
30	{{flag|Fukuoka Prefecture|name=Fukuoka}}	0.8896	0.9061	0.9228 |0.907
31	{{flag|Kumamoto Prefecture|name=Kumamoto}}	0.8872	0.9045	0.9225 |0.900
32	{{flag|Ehime Prefecture|name=Ehime}}	0.8862	0.9047	0.9221 |0.896
33	{{flag|Chiba Prefecture|name=Chiba}}	0.8868	0.9019	0.9219 |0.915
34	{{flag|Yamagata Prefecture|name=Yamagata}}	0.8855	0.9014	0.9216 |0.891
35	{{flag|Saga Prefecture|name=Saga}}	0.8810	0.9021	0.9189 |0.896
36	{{flag|Iwate Prefecture|name=Iwate}}	0.8792	0.8998	0.9186 |0.888
37	{{flag|Tokushima Prefecture|name=Tokushima}}	0.8831	0.9005	0.9182 |0.906
38	{{flag|Nara Prefecture|name=Nara}}	0.8794	0.8944	0.9169 |0.904
39	{{flag|Saitama Prefecture|name=Saitama}}	0.8811	0.8956	0.9166 |0.915
40	{{flag|Kōchi Prefecture|name=Kōchi}}	0.8781	0.8964	0.9156 |0.889
41	{{flag|Wakayama Prefecture|name=Wakayama}}	0.8770	0.8957	0.9155 |0.898
42	{{flag|Miyazaki Prefecture|name=Miyazaki}}	0.8780	0.8959	0.9148 |0.888
43	{{flag|Akita Prefecture|name=Akita}}	0.8777	0.8951	0.9142 |0.888
44	{{flag|Nagasaki Prefecture|name=Nagasaki}}	0.8749	0.8949	0.9127 |0.890
45	{{flag|Kagoshima Prefecture|name=Kagoshima}}	0.8762	0.8938	0.9127 |0.892
46	{{flag|Okinawa Prefecture|name=Okinawa}}	0.8810	0.8940	0.9111 |0.888
47	{{flag|Aomori Prefecture|name=Aomori}}	0.8698	0.8877	0.9065 |0.876

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090719150637/http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/main/pub_detail.php?pubid=102 Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan]

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

Human Development Index

Prefectures by Human Development Index

Prefectures by Human Development Index

Japan, Human Development Index

Human Development Index

Human Development Index