HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Costa Rica
87.0
HCI Score
86
Liberty Score
+1.0
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 Costa Rica
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 33.6 60.3 87.0 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Life Satisfaction 7.1 /10 91st Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Life Expectancy 81 yrs 77th Safe Water Access 99 % 60th Adult Literacy 98 % 57th Infant Mortality ↓ 7 /1k 53rd GDP/Capita (PPP) $16,200 $ 51st Voter Turnout 60 % 45th Mean Schooling 8.8 yrs 39th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Costa Rica exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 87.0 closely matched by a Liberty score of 86 (gap: +1.0). 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