Map of French regions and overseas territories by HDI in 2017.
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  > 0.900

  0.880 - 0.900

  0.860 - 0.880

  0.800 - 0.860

  < 0.800

This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2021.^[1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside.

Rank	Pre-2016 region	Region since 2016	HDI (2021)
Very high human development
1	Île-de-France		0.952
2	Rhône-Alpes	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	0.921
3	Midi-Pyrénées	Occitanie	0.918
4	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur		0.907
5	Aquitaine	Nouvelle-Aquitaine	0.904
–	France		0.904
6	Alsace	Grand Est	0.903
7	Pays de la Loire		0.902
8	Brittany		0.901
9	Upper Normandy	Normandy	0.900
10	Burgundy	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.898
11	Centre-Val de Loire		0.896
12	Franche-Comté	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté	0.894
13	Lorraine	Grand Est	0.891
14	Lower Normandy	Normandy	0.888
15	Champagne-Ardenne	Grand Est	0.883
16	Picardy	Hauts-de-France	0.880
17	Corsica		0.877

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