HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Israel
91.5
HCI Score
60
Liberty Score
+31.5
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 Israel
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 75.3 91.5 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 Mean Schooling 13.2 yrs 97th Life Satisfaction 7.3 /10 95th Life Expectancy 83 yrs 90th Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th GDP/Capita (PPP) $39,100 $ 77th Voter Turnout 71 % 63rd Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th Adult Literacy 98 % 57th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Israel sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 60, HCI at 91.5. The +31.5-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Israel 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