HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Taiwan
89.4
HCI Score
91
Liberty Score
-1.6
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 Taiwan
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 62.0 89.4 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 GDP/Capita (PPP) $50,600 $ 92nd Infant Mortality ↓ 3 /1k 89th Adult Literacy 99 % 88th Mean Schooling 12.5 yrs 80th Life Expectancy 81 yrs 77th Life Satisfaction 6.5 /10 76th Voter Turnout 72 % 66th Gender Dev. Index 0.980 60th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
Taiwan exemplifies the liberty-capability equilibrium: an HCI of 89.4 closely matched by a Liberty score of 91 (gap: -1.6). 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