HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Kazakhstan
85.5
HCI Score
12
Liberty Score
+73.5
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 Kazakhstan
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 78.8 85.5 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Adult Literacy 100 % 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Gender Dev. Index 1.000 94th Mean Schooling 11.9 yrs 69th GDP/Capita (PPP) $25,600 $ 62nd Life Satisfaction 6.1 /10 62nd Safe Water Access 97 % 51st Infant Mortality ↓ 8 /1k 48th Voter Turnout 54 % 32nd Life Expectancy 71 yrs 21st ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With a Liberty score of just 12 but an HCI of 85.5, Kazakhstan exhibits one of the largest capability-liberty gaps in the dataset (+73.5 points). This extreme decoupling — high human development under authoritarian governance — defines the “capable autocracy” archetype. The historical pattern suggests these regimes can sustain material progress for decades, but the correlation data (r = 0.619) implies a long-run gravitational pull toward either liberalization or capability erosion.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API