HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Libya
75.6
HCI Score
8
Liberty Score
+67.6
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 Libya
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 37.2 75.6 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Life Satisfaction 5.5 /10 42nd Infant Mortality ↓ 10 /1k 42nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $10,000 $ 37th Life Expectancy 73 yrs 36th Adult Literacy 91 % 31st Mean Schooling 7.3 yrs 22nd Gender Dev. Index 0.890 19th Safe Water Access 70 % 10th Electricity Access 70 % 10th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With a Liberty score of just 8 but an HCI of 75.6, Libya exhibits one of the largest capability-liberty gaps in the dataset (+67.6 points). This extreme decoupling — high human development under authoritarian governance — defines the “capable autocracy” archetype. The historical pattern suggests these regimes can sustain material progress for decades, but the correlation data (r = 0.619) implies a long-run gravitational pull toward either liberalization or capability erosion.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API