HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Botswana
75.2
HCI Score
71
Liberty Score
+4.2
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
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 Botswana
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 35.5 75.2 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Gender Dev. Index 1.020 100th GDP/Capita (PPP) $15,400 $ 49th Mean Schooling 10.3 yrs 46th Adult Literacy 89 % 29th Voter Turnout 48 % 24th Safe Water Access 90 % 23rd Infant Mortality ↓ 22 /1k 21st Life Expectancy 70 yrs 18th Electricity Access 75 % 13th Life Satisfaction 3.7 /10 6th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Botswana exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 75.2 closely matched by a Liberty score of 71 (gap: +4.2). This alignment, visible in the scatter plot's upper-right cluster, represents the theoretical end-state where democratic institutions and human development reinforce each other.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API