HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Iraq
75.6
HCI Score
20
Liberty Score
+55.6
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
Capable Autocracy
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 Iraq
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 35.8 75.6 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 Safe Water Access 95 % 36th GDP/Capita (PPP) $8,700 $ 31st Life Satisfaction 4.9 /10 29th Adult Literacy 86 % 26th Mean Schooling 7.5 yrs 26th Infant Mortality ↓ 21 /1k 23rd Life Expectancy 71 yrs 21st Voter Turnout 36 % 11th Gender Dev. Index 0.790 4th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Iraq scores 75.6 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 20 — a 55.6-point gap placing it firmly in the “capable autocracy” quadrant. The state delivers meaningful human development without corresponding political freedom. Cross-national evidence shows this configuration is historically unstable: most countries either democratize as capabilities rise or see stagnation set in.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API