HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: DRC Congo
51.0
HCI Score
15
Liberty Score
+36.0
Gap (HCI leads Liberty)
Neither
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 DRC Congo
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 31.5 51.0 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Mean Schooling 7 yrs 21st Adult Literacy 78 % 16th Life Satisfaction 3.8 /10 8th Gender Dev. Index 0.840 8th Life Expectancy 61 yrs 3rd Infant Mortality ↓ 58 /1k 2nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $900 $ 1st Safe Water Access 44 % 1st ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With Liberty at 15 and HCI at 51.0, DRC Congo faces a dual deficit — limited political freedom combined with low human development. Historical data shows exit from this quadrant typically requires either sustained external investment or a political opening that attracts capital.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API