Rank Region HDI (2018) Comparable countries (2018) [2] Medium human development 1 Khartoum 0.626 East Timor 2 Northern 0.623 Honduras 3 River Nile 0.600 Vanuatu, Laos Low human development 4 Gezira 0.549 Syria 5 Red Sea 0.522 Madagascar – Sudan 0.507 Haiti, Togo 6 Sennar 0.496 Afghanistan 7 White Nile 0.495 Djibouti 8 North Darfur 0.468 Gambia 9 North Kordofan 0.465 Liberia 10 Kassala 0.457 Democratic Republic of the Congo 11 Qadarif 0.455 Democratic Republic of the Congo 12 West Darfur 0.446 Mozambique 13 South Darfur 0.442 Liberia 14 South Kordofan 0.437 Sierra Leone, Mozambique 15 Blue Nile 0.424 Burundi