HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Singapore
92.3
HCI Score
47
Liberty Score
+45.3
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 Somalia Norway Singapore
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 64.0 92.3 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th GDP/Capita (PPP) $87,900 $ 100th Safe Water Access 100 % 100th Infant Mortality ↓ 2 /1k 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Life Expectancy 84 yrs 99th Voter Turnout 93 % 96th Life Satisfaction 6.5 /10 76th Mean Schooling 11.9 yrs 69th Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th Adult Literacy 97 % 49th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Singapore scores 92.3 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 47 — a 45.3-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