The present disclosure discloses a method and device for identifying a human movement state. The method comprises: providing a three-axis acceleration sensor and a human physical sign sensor in a wearable device； determining according to acceleration signals that are collected by the three-axis acceleration sensor that a human body is in a walking state, calculating a walking step number of the human body, and calculating a walking step frequency according to the walking step number； calculating a corresponding physical sign frequency during the walking process according to a physical sign signal that is collected by the human physical sign sensor； and comparing the walking step frequency and the physical sign frequency that are obtained by calculating respectively with a step frequency threshold and a physical sign frequency threshold, and if the walking step frequency is greater than the step frequency threshold, and the physical sign frequency is greater than the physical sign frequency threshold, determining that the human movement state is a running state, and recording the calculated walking step number to be a running step number； and if not, determining that the human movement state is a pacing state, and recording the calculated walking step number to be a pacing step number. The technical solutions of the present disclosure effectively distinguish the pacing state and the running state in walking states.
