HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Lebanon
74.7
HCI Score
15
Liberty Score
+59.7
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 Lebanon
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 58.6 74.7 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 Life Expectancy 78 yrs 67th Infant Mortality ↓ 6 /1k 59th Mean Schooling 8.8 yrs 39th Adult Literacy 95 % 38th Voter Turnout 49 % 26th GDP/Capita (PPP) $7,000 $ 24th Safe Water Access 85 % 20th Gender Dev. Index 0.890 19th Life Satisfaction 2.7 /10 1st ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Lebanon scores 74.7 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 15 — a 59.7-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