HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Cuba
87.9
HCI Score
7
Liberty Score
+80.9
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 Cuba
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 36.4 61.7 87.9 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 0.990 88th Voter Turnout 76 % 75th Infant Mortality ↓ 4 /1k 70th Life Expectancy 78 yrs 67th Mean Schooling 11.8 yrs 64th Safe Water Access 97 % 51st GDP/Capita (PPP) $5,600 $ 22nd ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With a Liberty score of just 7 but an HCI of 87.9, Cuba exhibits one of the largest capability-liberty gaps in the dataset (+80.9 points). This extreme decoupling — high human development under authoritarian governance — defines the “capable autocracy” archetype. The historical pattern suggests these regimes can sustain material progress for decades, but the correlation data (r = 0.619) implies a long-run gravitational pull toward either liberalization or capability erosion.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API