HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Switzerland
89.7
HCI Score
95
Liberty Score
-5.3
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 Switzerland
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 44.1 80.9 89.7 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 Life Expectancy 84 yrs 99th Life Satisfaction 7.5 /10 98th Mean Schooling 13.2 yrs 97th GDP/Capita (PPP) $61,000 $ 97th Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th Voter Turnout 46 % 20th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Switzerland sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 95, HCI at 89.7. The -5.3-point gap suggests room for human development to catch up to democratic maturity. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Switzerland demonstrates the positive correlation between freedom and flourishing.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API