HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Poland
88.8
HCI Score
82
Liberty Score
+6.8
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 Poland
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 41.7 62.9 88.8 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 Safe Water Access 100 % 100th Electricity Access 100 % 100th Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Mean Schooling 12.6 yrs 83rd Life Satisfaction 6.4 /10 72nd GDP/Capita (PPP) $31,600 $ 70th Voter Turnout 74 % 70th Life Expectancy 78 yrs 67th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Poland sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 82, HCI at 88.8. The +6.8-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Poland 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