HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Argentina
87.7
HCI Score
65
Liberty Score
+22.7
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
Free & Capable
Quadrant Classification
LIBERTY × HCI: ALL 91 COUNTRIES
CAPABLE AUTOCRACY FREE & CAPABLE NEITHER FREE BUT STRUGGLING LIBERTY SCORE → HCI SCORE → 0 20 40 60 80 100 0 20 40 60 80 100 r = 0.619 Saudi Arabia Mali Singapore Somalia Norway Argentina
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 27.4 72.0 87.7 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Safe Water Access 100 % 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Voter Turnout 78 % 82nd Life Satisfaction 6.2 /10 63rd Life Expectancy 77 yrs 58th Mean Schooling 10.8 yrs 58th GDP/Capita (PPP) $18,500 $ 56th Infant Mortality ↓ 8 /1k 48th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Argentina sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 65, HCI at 87.7. The +22.7-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Argentina demonstrates the positive correlation between freedom and flourishing.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API