HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Belgium
91.4
HCI Score
90
Liberty Score
+1.4
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 Belgium
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 37.6 74.7 91.4 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 Voter Turnout 87 % 93rd Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Life Expectancy 82 yrs 87th GDP/Capita (PPP) $45,300 $ 86th Life Satisfaction 6.9 /10 85th Mean Schooling 12.3 yrs 73rd Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Belgium exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 91.4 closely matched by a Liberty score of 90 (gap: +1.4). This alignment, visible in the scatter plot's upper-right cluster, represents the theoretical end-state where democratic institutions and human development reinforce each other.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API