HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: New Zealand
91.5
HCI Score
96
Liberty Score
-4.5
Gap (Liberty leads HCI)
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 New Zealand
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 69.6 81.3 91.5 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 Mean Schooling 12.8 yrs 89th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Life Satisfaction 7.0 /10 88th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Life Expectancy 82 yrs 87th Voter Turnout 78 % 82nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $36,200 $ 73rd Infant Mortality ↓ 4 /1k 70th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
New Zealand exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 91.5 closely matched by a Liberty score of 96 (gap: -4.5). 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