HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Ethiopia
58.3
HCI Score
18
Liberty Score
+40.3
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
Neither
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 Ethiopia
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 19.7 58.3 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Voter Turnout 94 % 98th Life Expectancy 67 yrs 13th Life Satisfaction 4.1 /10 12th Gender Dev. Index 0.860 12th Infant Mortality ↓ 31 /1k 11th GDP/Capita (PPP) $2,300 $ 9th Electricity Access 55 % 7th Adult Literacy 52 % 4th Mean Schooling 3.2 yrs 2nd Safe Water Access 52 % 2nd ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With Liberty at 18 and HCI at 58.3, Ethiopia faces a dual deficit — limited political freedom combined with low human development. Historical data shows exit from this quadrant typically requires either sustained external investment or a political opening that attracts capital.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API