HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Indonesia
80.4
HCI Score
50
Liberty Score
+30.4
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 Indonesia
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 16.7 25.6 80.4 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Voter Turnout 82 % 86th Adult Literacy 96 % 42nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $11,600 $ 40th Life Satisfaction 5.4 /10 38th Mean Schooling 8.4 yrs 33rd Gender Dev. Index 0.940 32nd Life Expectancy 72 yrs 30th Infant Mortality ↓ 17 /1k 29th Safe Water Access 91 % 27th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With an HCI of 80.4 and Liberty at 50, Indonesia sits in the “capable autocracy” zone, where the state invests in human capital without fully extending political rights. The 30.4-point gap between capability and liberty suggests developmental momentum that may eventually create pressure for political opening.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API