Abstract: Resource endowment and economic development are the basic condition for the international cooperation of the five BRICS countries. It has a certain practical significance for the study of the BRICS resource dependence degree and economic development level. In this paper, we introduce the human development index into the panel data model to carry on the quantitative analysis, finding the existence of the BRICS’ countries resource curse effect. Material capital investment has a negative impact on the level of human development in the BRICS. Three elements of level of technological innovation, level of opening-up and man capital investment play a promoting role on the influence of human development level of the BRICS. The degrees of resource curse in the BRICS are different. Russia is the highest degree of resource curse, which is a country with serious resource curse. Other countries for the light of the resource curse countries. From the perspective of geography and human development，based on resource curse effect of human development index, this study provides a supplement and suggestion to economics resource curse effect.