HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Chile
88.5
HCI Score
82
Liberty Score
+6.5
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 Chile
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 34.1 57.5 88.5 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 Voter Turnout 85 % 90th Life Expectancy 80 yrs 72nd Life Satisfaction 6.3 /10 68th Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th GDP/Capita (PPP) $22,600 $ 59th Infant Mortality ↓ 6 /1k 59th Mean Schooling 10.7 yrs 54th Adult Literacy 97 % 49th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Chile sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 82, HCI at 88.5. The +6.5-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Chile 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