HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Bangladesh
74.2
HCI Score
25
Liberty Score
+49.2
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 Bangladesh
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 15.4 23.1 74.2 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Safe Water Access 98 % 52nd Life Expectancy 73 yrs 36th Life Satisfaction 5.2 /10 36th Gender Dev. Index 0.930 30th Electricity Access 99 % 27th GDP/Capita (PPP) $5,600 $ 22nd Mean Schooling 7 yrs 21st Infant Mortality ↓ 22 /1k 21st Voter Turnout 42 % 17th Adult Literacy 75 % 13th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Bangladesh scores 74.2 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 25 — a 49.2-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