HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: India
72.0
HCI Score
62
Liberty Score
+10.0
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 India
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 14.0 24.9 72.0 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Voter Turnout 66 % 57th Safe Water Access 94 % 34th Life Expectancy 72 yrs 30th GDP/Capita (PPP) $7,500 $ 28th Mean Schooling 6.8 yrs 19th Infant Mortality ↓ 25 /1k 17th Adult Literacy 77 % 14th Life Satisfaction 4.0 /10 10th Gender Dev. Index 0.850 10th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
India sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 62, HCI at 72.0. The +10.0-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, India 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