HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Haiti
55.8
HCI Score
8
Liberty Score
+47.8
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 Haiti
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 28.3 55.8 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Gender Dev. Index 0.900 21st Mean Schooling 5.6 yrs 13th Adult Literacy 62 % 9th Life Expectancy 64 yrs 7th Infant Mortality ↓ 44 /1k 7th GDP/Capita (PPP) $1,400 $ 3rd Life Satisfaction 3.2 /10 3rd Safe Water Access 55 % 3rd Electricity Access 48 % 2nd Voter Turnout 23 % 1st ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With Liberty at 8 and HCI at 55.8, Haiti 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