HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Ukraine
84.3
HCI Score
35
Liberty Score
+49.3
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 Singapore Somalia Norway Ukraine
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 88.1 84.3 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Adult Literacy 100 % 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Gender Dev. Index 1.000 94th Mean Schooling 11.4 yrs 60th Voter Turnout 67 % 59th Infant Mortality ↓ 7 /1k 53rd Safe Water Access 96 % 39th GDP/Capita (PPP) $9,800 $ 36th Life Expectancy 72 yrs 30th Life Satisfaction 4.6 /10 24th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Ukraine scores 84.3 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 35 — a 49.3-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