HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Ghana
72.7
HCI Score
68
Liberty Score
+4.7
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 Ghana
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 37.5 72.7 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Voter Turnout 60 % 45th Mean Schooling 8.4 yrs 33rd Gender Dev. Index 0.910 25th Life Satisfaction 4.6 /10 24th Safe Water Access 84 % 19th Electricity Access 86 % 19th Adult Literacy 80 % 17th GDP/Capita (PPP) $4,700 $ 17th Infant Mortality ↓ 30 /1k 12th Life Expectancy 65 yrs 9th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Ghana exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 72.7 closely matched by a Liberty score of 68 (gap: +4.7). 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