HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Italy
88.7
HCI Score
82
Liberty Score
+6.7
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 Italy
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 26.4 66.3 88.7 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 Infant Mortality ↓ 2 /1k 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Life Expectancy 84 yrs 99th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th GDP/Capita (PPP) $36,400 $ 74th Life Satisfaction 6.4 /10 72nd Mean Schooling 10.6 yrs 53rd Voter Turnout 64 % 49th Gender Dev. Index 0.970 43rd ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Italy sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 82, HCI at 88.7. The +6.7-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Italy 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