HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Bulgaria
84.0
HCI Score
66
Liberty Score
+18.0
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 Bulgaria
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 39.2 61.4 84.0 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 Infant Mortality ↓ 5 /1k 64th Mean Schooling 11.5 yrs 62nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $23,500 $ 60th Life Satisfaction 5.5 /10 42nd Life Expectancy 75 yrs 41st Voter Turnout 40 % 13th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Bulgaria sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 66, HCI at 84.0. The +18.0-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Bulgaria 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