HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Sri Lanka
81.1
HCI Score
35
Liberty Score
+46.1
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 Sri Lanka
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 31.7 52.7 81.1 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 79 % 84th Infant Mortality ↓ 6 /1k 59th Life Expectancy 77 yrs 58th Mean Schooling 10.6 yrs 53rd GDP/Capita (PPP) $11,300 $ 39th Gender Dev. Index 0.950 37th Adult Literacy 92 % 32nd Safe Water Access 92 % 28th Life Satisfaction 4.5 /10 20th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Sri Lanka scores 81.1 on the HCI against a Liberty score of 35 — a 46.1-point gap placing it firmly in the “capable autocracy” quadrant. The state delivers meaningful human development without corresponding political freedom. Cross-national evidence shows this configuration is historically unstable: most countries either democratize as capabilities rise or see stagnation set in.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API