HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Portugal
86.6
HCI Score
91
Liberty Score
-4.4
Gap (Liberty leads HCI)
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 Portugal
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 29.1 54.5 86.6 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 Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Life Expectancy 82 yrs 87th GDP/Capita (PPP) $29,800 $ 68th Life Satisfaction 6.1 /10 62nd Adult Literacy 97 % 49th Mean Schooling 9.5 yrs 43rd Voter Turnout 58 % 35th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Portugal exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 86.6 closely matched by a Liberty score of 91 (gap: -4.4). This alignment, visible in the scatter plot's upper-right cluster, represents the theoretical end-state where democratic institutions and human development reinforce each other.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API