HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Romania
85.5
HCI Score
74
Liberty Score
+11.5
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 Romania
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 32.4 55.3 85.5 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 Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Life Satisfaction 6.3 /10 68th GDP/Capita (PPP) $27,800 $ 67th Infant Mortality ↓ 5 /1k 64th Mean Schooling 11.5 yrs 62nd Safe Water Access 97 % 51st Life Expectancy 76 yrs 50th Voter Turnout 52 % 29th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Romania sits in the “Free & Capable” quadrant — Liberty at 74, HCI at 85.5. The +11.5-point gap suggests capabilities that outpace the current liberty score. Among the 38 countries in this quadrant, Romania 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