HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Rwanda
63.5
HCI Score
10
Liberty Score
+53.5
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
Neither
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 Rwanda
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 25.0 63.5 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Voter Turnout 98 % 99th Gender Dev. Index 0.950 37th Life Expectancy 70 yrs 18th Infant Mortality ↓ 25 /1k 17th Adult Literacy 74 % 12th GDP/Capita (PPP) $2,200 $ 8th Mean Schooling 4.6 yrs 7th Safe Water Access 62 % 7th Life Satisfaction 3.5 /10 5th Electricity Access 50 % 4th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With Liberty at 10 and HCI at 63.5, Rwanda faces a dual deficit — limited political freedom combined with low human development. Historical data shows exit from this quadrant typically requires either sustained external investment or a political opening that attracts capital.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API