HUMAN CAPABILITIES INDEX
Liberty × Human Development: Venezuela
78.8
HCI Score
8
Liberty Score
+70.8
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 Venezuela
HCI TRAJECTORY (1800–2023)
0 20 40 60 80 100 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2023 27.2 54.9 78.8 Year HCI Score
KEY INDICATORS — PERCENTILE RANK AMONG 91 COUNTRIES
75th + 50–74th 25–49th Below 25th INDICATOR VALUE RANK 50th Gender Dev. Index 0.990 88th Adult Literacy 97 % 49th Mean Schooling 10.3 yrs 46th Life Satisfaction 5.1 /10 32nd Life Expectancy 72 yrs 30th Electricity Access 99 % 27th Safe Water Access 90 % 23rd Infant Mortality ↓ 22 /1k 21st GDP/Capita (PPP) $5,000 $ 19th Voter Turnout 31 % 5th ↓ = lower is better (inverted percentile). Sorted by rank, highest first. Rank among 91 countries.
LIBERTY–CAPABILITY INSIGHT
With a Liberty score of just 8 but an HCI of 78.8, Venezuela exhibits one of the largest capability-liberty gaps in the dataset (+70.8 points). This extreme decoupling — high human development under authoritarian governance — defines the “capable autocracy” archetype. The historical pattern suggests these regimes can sustain material progress for decades, but the correlation data (r = 0.619) implies a long-run gravitational pull toward either liberalization or capability erosion.
Data: Human Capabilities Index (HCI) — 15 indicators, 91 countries, 1800–2023. Pearson r (Liberty × HCI) = 0.619. Download full dataset (XLSX) · JSON API