HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Hungary
86.7
HCI Score
63
Liberty Score
+23.7
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 Hungary
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 45.7 66.6 86.7 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Safe Water Access 100 % 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Mean Schooling 12.2 yrs 71st GDP/Capita (PPP) $30,700 $ 69th Voter Turnout 68 % 60th Life Expectancy 77 yrs 58th Life Satisfaction 6.0 /10 56th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Hungary sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 63, HCI at 86.7. The +23.7-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Hungary demonstrates the positive correlation between freedom and flourishing.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API