This article contains a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or using various measures of freedom, including civil liberties, political rights and economic rights. Some of the indices measure only some aspects of freedom, such as democracy or corruption.
Prominent indices
The indices and their origins:
- Canada
- The Economic Freedom of the World is a report published by Canada-based Fraser Institute in conjunction with the Economic Freedom Network, a group of independent research and educational institutes in 90 nations and territories worldwide. It is a numeric index, and its results are not currently included in the table below.
- Canada, United States, Germany
- The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom.[1] The index presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom. The index covers the following areas: Rule of Law, Security and Safety, Movement, Religion, Association, Assembly, Civil Society, Expression, Relationships, Size of Government, Legal System and Property Rights, Access to Sound Money, Freedom to Trade Internationally, and Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business. The Human Freedom Index was created in 2015, covering 152 countries for years 2008–2012. The Human Freedom Index 2016 was published in November 2016, covering 159 countries for years 2008–2015. The report is co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Co-authors of the report are Ian Vásquez and Tanja Porčnik.
- The Index of Freedom in the World was a predecessor to the Human Freedom Index. It measured classical civil liberties and was published in 2013 by Canada's Fraser Institute, Germany's Liberales Institute, and the U.S. Cato Institute.[2] It is not currently included in the table below.
- France
- World Press Freedom Index, is published each year since 2002 (except that 2011 was combined with 2012) by France-based Reporters Without Borders. Countries are assessed as having a good situation, a satisfactory situation, noticeable problems, a difficult situation, or a very serious situation.[3]
- Spain
- The World Index of Moral Freedom was first published on 2 April 2016, by the Foundation for the Advancement of Liberty, based in Madrid, Spain. This index ranks 160 countries by five categories of indicators: religious freedom, bioethical freedom, drugs freedom, sexuality freedom and family and gender freedom. The index aims at establishing the degree of individual freedom or state control on decisions pertaining to the great moral debates of our time.[4]
- Sweden
- MaxRange, developed by Max Rånge, and maintained by Mikael Sandberg and Max Rånge, political scientists at Halmstad University, Sweden, is a data set defining a country's level of democracy and institutional structure (regime-type) on a 1000-point graded scale. Values are sorted based on level of democracy and political accountability. MaxRange defines the value corresponding to all states every month from 1789 to the present.[5]
- V-Dem Democracy indices by V-Dem Institute at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is an approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles. With six principal investigators (PIs), seventeen project managers (PMs) with special responsibility for issue areas, more than thirty regional managers (RMs), 170 country coordinators (CCs), research assistants, and 3,000 country experts (CEs), the V-Dem project is one of the largest social science data collection projects focusing on research.[6]
- International IDEAs "Global State of Democracy Report" provides democratic performance of 168 to 170 countries.. "The GSoD Indices are based on 116 individual indicators devised by various scholars and organizations using different types of sources: expert surveys, standards-based coding by research groups and analysts, observational data and composite measures. The Varieties of Democracy project is the largest contributor of indicators to the Global State of Democracies Indices.[7]
- Switzerland
- Global Corruption Index, rates and ranks countries by a metric that measures the risk of corruption in the country by using 43 variables. It covers 196 countries and territories and is published by the Swiss-based company, Global Risk Profile.[8]
- UK
- The Economist Democracy Index, published by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, is an assessment of countries' democracy. Countries are rated as full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, or authoritarian regimes. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture.[9]
- US
- The CIRI Human Rights Data Project measures a range of human, civil, women's, and workers' rights.[10] It was created in 1994 and is now hosted by the University of Connecticut.[11] In its 2011 report, the U.S. was ranked 38th in overall human rights.[12]
- Freedom in the World, published each year since 1972 by the U.S.-based Freedom House, ranks countries by political rights and civil liberties that are derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Countries are assessed as free, partly free, or unfree.[13]
- Freedom of the Press is a report published each year since 1980 by Freedom House.
- The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The Wall Street Journal and the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation. Countries are assessed as free, mostly free, moderately free, mostly unfree, and repressed.[14]
- The U.S.-based Polity data series is a widely used data series in political science research. It contains coded annual information on regime authority characteristics and transitions for all independent states with total populations greater than 500,000 and covers the years 1800–2018. Polity's conclusions about a state's level of democracy are based on an evaluation of that state's elections for competitiveness, openness, and level of participation. Data from this series is not currently included in the table below. The Polity work is sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF) which is funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; however, the views expressed in the reports are the authors' alone and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government.[15]
Annual assessments
Here is a table of the assessments by four indices, for most countries of the world. For exact rankings rather than assessments, refer to the individual index articles.
- Country ratings from Freedom in the World 2021 by Freedom House
- Press freedom in 2023, according to Reporters Without Borders
- The Economist Democracy Index in 2022 by the Economist Intelligence Unit
Index | Scale | ||||||||||||||
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Freedom in the World | free | partly free | not free | ||||||||||||
Index of Economic Freedom | free | mostly free | moderately free | mostly unfree | repressed | ||||||||||
World Press Freedom Index | good | satisfactory | problematic | difficult | very serious | ||||||||||
The Economist Democracy Index | full democracy | flawed democracy | hybrid regime | — | authoritarian regime |
List by country
Country | Freedom in the World 2023[13] | Score | Index of Economic Freedom 2023[14] | Score | Press Freedom Index 2023[3] | Score | Democracy Index 2023[9] | Score |
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Norway | free | 100 | mostly free | 76.9 | good | 95.18 | full democracy | 9.81 |
Ireland | free | 97 | free | 82 | good | 89.91 | full democracy | 9.05 |
Sweden | free | 100 | mostly free | 77.5 | good | 88.15 | full democracy | 9.26 |
Finland | free | 100 | mostly free | 77.1 | good | 87.94 | full democracy | 9.2 |
Denmark | free | 97 | mostly free | 77.6 | good | 89.48 | full democracy | 9.15 |
Switzerland | free | 96 | free | 83.8 | satisfactory | 84.4 | full democracy | 8.83 |
New Zealand | free | 99 | mostly free | 78.9 | satisfactory | 84.23 | full democracy | 9.25 |
Netherlands | free | 97 | mostly free | 78 | good | 87 | full democracy | 8.96 |
Luxembourg | free | 97 | mostly free | 78.4 | satisfactory | 81.98 | full democracy | 8.68 |
Estonia | free | 94 | mostly free | 78.6 | good | 85.31 | flawed democracy | 7.84 |
Canada | free | 98 | mostly free | 73.7 | satisfactory | 83.53 | full democracy | 9.24 |
Taiwan | free | 94 | free | 80.7 | satisfactory | 75.54 | full democracy | 8.94 |
Iceland | free | 94 | mostly free | 72.2 | satisfactory | 83.19 | full democracy | 9.37 |
Germany | free | 94 | mostly free | 73.7 | satisfactory | 81.91 | full democracy | 8.67 |
Portugal | free | 96 | moderately free | 69.5 | satisfactory | 84.6 | flawed democracy | 7.9 |
Australia | free | 95 | mostly free | 74.8 | satisfactory | 78.24 | full democracy | 8.96 |
Czech Republic | free | 92 | mostly free | 71.9 | satisfactory | 83.58 | flawed democracy | 7.67 |
Lithuania | free | 89 | mostly free | 72.2 | good | 86.79 | flawed democracy | 7.13 |
Latvia | free | 88 | mostly free | 72.8 | satisfactory | 83.27 | flawed democracy | 7.24 |
United Kingdom | free | 93 | moderately free | 69.9 | satisfactory | 78.51 | full democracy | 8.54 |
Austria | free | 93 | mostly free | 71.1 | satisfactory | 77.3 | full democracy | 8.16 |
Slovakia | free | 90 | moderately free | 69 | satisfactory | 83.22 | flawed democracy | 6.97 |
Belgium | free | 96 | moderately free | 67.1 | satisfactory | 76.47 | flawed democracy | 7.51 |
Costa Rica | free | 91 | moderately free | 66.5 | satisfactory | 80.2 | full democracy | 8.16 |
Uruguay | free | 96 | mostly free | 70.2 | satisfactory | 70.33 | full democracy | 8.61 |
Slovenia | free | 95 | moderately free | 68.5 | satisfactory | 70.59 | flawed democracy | 7.54 |
Cyprus | free | 92 | mostly free | 72.3 | problematic | 68.62 | flawed democracy | 7.56 |
France | free | 89 | moderately free | 63.6 | satisfactory | 78.72 | flawed democracy | 7.99 |
Spain | free | 90 | moderately free | 65 | satisfactory | 75.37 | full democracy | 8.12 |
Japan | free | 96 | moderately free | 69.3 | problematic | 63.95 | full democracy | 8.13 |
South Korea | free | 83 | mostly free | 73.7 | satisfactory | 70.83 | full democracy | 8.01 |
Cabo Verde | free | 92 | moderately free | 65.8 | satisfactory | 75.72 | n/a | — |
Chile | free | 94 | mostly free | 71.1 | problematic | 60.09 | full democracy | 8.28 |
Samoa | free | 83 | moderately free | 68.3 | satisfactory | 82.15 | n/a | — |
United States | free | 83 | mostly free | 70.6 | satisfactory | 71.22 | flawed democracy | 7.92 |
Italy | free | 90 | moderately free | 62.3 | satisfactory | 72.05 | flawed democracy | 7.74 |
Jamaica | free | 80 | moderately free | 68.1 | satisfactory | 75.89 | flawed democracy | 7.13 |
Mauritius | free | 85 | mostly free | 70.6 | problematic | 65.56 | full democracy | 8.14 |
Croatia | free | 84 | moderately free | 66.4 | satisfactory | 71.95 | flawed democracy | 6.5 |
Trinidad and Tobago | free | 82 | mostly unfree | 59.5 | satisfactory | 76.54 | flawed democracy | 7.16 |
Malta | free | 89 | moderately free | 67.5 | problematic | 59.76 | flawed democracy | 7.68 |
Poland | free | 81 | moderately free | 67.7 | problematic | 67.66 | flawed democracy | 6.85 |
Romania | free | 83 | moderately free | 64.5 | problematic | 69.04 | flawed democracy | 6.4 |
Namibia | free | 77 | mostly unfree | 57.7 | satisfactory | 80.91 | flawed democracy | 6.52 |
South Africa | free | 79 | mostly unfree | 55.7 | satisfactory | 78.6 | flawed democracy | 7.05 |
Bulgaria | free | 79 | moderately free | 69.3 | problematic | 62.98 | flawed democracy | 6.71 |
Panama | free | 83 | moderately free | 63.8 | problematic | 63.67 | flawed democracy | 7.18 |
Belize | free | 87 | mostly unfree | 59.8 | satisfactory | 70.49 | n/a | — |
Argentina | free | 85 | mostly unfree | 51 | satisfactory | 73.36 | flawed democracy | 6.95 |
Seychelles | free | 79 | mostly unfree | 59.5 | satisfactory | 75.71 | n/a | — |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | free | 91 | moderately free | 63.5 | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Tonga | free | 81 | moderately free | 60 | satisfactory | 71.29 | n/a | — |
North Macedonia | partly free | 68 | moderately free | 63.7 | satisfactory | 74.35 | hybrid regime | 5.89 |
Mongolia | free | 84 | moderately free | 61.7 | problematic | 59.33 | flawed democracy | 6.48 |
Israel | free | 77 | moderately free | 68.9 | problematic | 57.57 | flawed democracy | 7.84 |
Dominica | free | 93 | mostly unfree | 59.7 | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Saint Lucia | free | 92 | moderately free | 60.7 | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Timor-Leste | free | 72 | repressed | 47.2 | satisfactory | 84.49 | flawed democracy | 7.06 |
Ghana | free | 80 | mostly unfree | 58 | problematic | 65.93 | flawed democracy | 6.5 |
Botswana | free | 72 | moderately free | 64.9 | problematic | 64.61 | flawed democracy | 7.62 |
Dominican Republic | partly free | 68 | moderately free | 62.6 | satisfactory | 71.88 | flawed democracy | 6.32 |
Montenegro | partly free | 67 | moderately free | 60.9 | satisfactory | 74.28 | hybrid regime | 5.77 |
Greece | free | 86 | mostly unfree | 56.9 | problematic | 55.2 | flawed democracy | 7.39 |
Moldova | partly free | 62 | mostly unfree | 58.5 | satisfactory | 77.62 | hybrid regime | 5.78 |
Guyana | free | 73 | mostly unfree | 56.9 | problematic | 67.5 | flawed democracy | 6.01 |
Suriname | free | 79 | repressed | 46.1 | satisfactory | 70.62 | flawed democracy | 6.82 |
Hungary | partly free | 66 | moderately free | 64.1 | problematic | 62.96 | flawed democracy | 6.56 |
Albania | partly free | 67 | moderately free | 65.3 | problematic | 57.86 | flawed democracy | 6.08 |
Peru | free | 70 | moderately free | 66.5 | difficult | 52.74 | flawed democracy | 6.53 |
Armenia | partly free | 54 | moderately free | 65.1 | satisfactory | 70.61 | hybrid regime | 5.35 |
Georgia | partly free | 58 | moderately free | 68.7 | problematic | 61.69 | hybrid regime | 5.31 |
Ecuador | free | 70 | mostly unfree | 55 | problematic | 60.51 | flawed democracy | 6.13 |
Brazil | free | 72 | mostly unfree | 53.5 | problematic | 58.67 | flawed democracy | 6.92 |
Malaysia | partly free | 53 | moderately free | 67.3 | problematic | 62.83 | flawed democracy | 7.25 |
Kosovo | partly free | 60 | moderately free | 60.7 | problematic | 68.38 | n/a | — |
Serbia | partly free | 60 | moderately free | 63.5 | problematic | 59.16 | flawed democracy | 6.22 |
Lesotho | partly free | 66 | mostly unfree | 51.6 | problematic | 64.29 | flawed democracy | 6.3 |
Paraguay | partly free | 65 | moderately free | 61 | problematic | 55.96 | flawed democracy | 6.18 |
Senegal | partly free | 68 | mostly unfree | 57.7 | problematic | 55.82 | hybrid regime | 5.67 |
Papua New Guinea | partly free | 61 | mostly unfree | 51.7 | problematic | 67.62 | flawed democracy | 6.1 |
Colombia | free | 70 | moderately free | 63.1 | difficult | 45.23 | flawed democracy | 7.04 |
Bhutan | partly free | 61 | mostly unfree | 59 | problematic | 59.25 | hybrid regime | 5.71 |
Malawi | partly free | 66 | mostly unfree | 52.8 | problematic | 60.34 | hybrid regime | 5.74 |
Singapore | partly free | 47 | free | 83.9 | difficult | 47.88 | flawed democracy | 6.03 |
Indonesia | partly free | 58 | moderately free | 63.5 | difficult | 54.83 | flawed democracy | 6.3 |
Côte d'Ivoire | partly free | 49 | moderately free | 60.4 | problematic | 68.83 | hybrid regime | 4.11 |
Madagascar | partly free | 61 | mostly unfree | 58.9 | problematic | 56.66 | hybrid regime | 5.7 |
Fiji | partly free | 59 | mostly unfree | 58 | problematic | 59.27 | hybrid regime | 5.72 |
The Gambia | partly free | 48 | mostly unfree | 57.9 | satisfactory | 71.06 | hybrid regime | 4.49 |
Sierra Leone | partly free | 63 | mostly unfree | 50.2 | problematic | 62.55 | hybrid regime | 4.86 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | partly free | 52 | moderately free | 62.9 | problematic | 65.43 | n/a | — |
Liberia | partly free | 60 | repressed | 49.6 | problematic | 64.34 | hybrid regime | 5.32 |
Mexico | partly free | 60 | moderately free | 63.2 | difficult | 47.98 | flawed democracy | 6.07 |
Benin | partly free | 59 | mostly unfree | 59.8 | difficult | 52.44 | hybrid regime | 4.58 |
Niger | partly free | 51 | mostly unfree | 53.7 | problematic | 66.84 | authoritarian regime | 3.29 |
Liechtenstein | free | 90 | n/a | — | satisfactory | 84.47 | n/a | — |
Nepal | partly free | 58 | mostly unfree | 51.4 | problematic | 57.89 | hybrid regime | 5.22 |
Philippines | partly free | 58 | mostly unfree | 59.3 | difficult | 46.21 | flawed democracy | 6.56 |
El Salvador | partly free | 56 | mostly unfree | 56 | difficult | 51.36 | hybrid regime | 5.9 |
Andorra | free | 93 | n/a | — | satisfactory | 75.05 | n/a | — |
Zambia | partly free | 54 | repressed | 47.8 | problematic | 59.41 | hybrid regime | 4.86 |
Tunisia | partly free | 56 | mostly unfree | 52.9 | difficult | 50.11 | flawed democracy | 6.59 |
Bolivia | partly free | 66 | repressed | 43.4 | difficult | 51.09 | hybrid regime | 5.08 |
Guatemala | partly free | 49 | moderately free | 62.7 | difficult | 48.12 | hybrid regime | 4.97 |
Barbados | free | 94 | moderately free | 69.8 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Togo | partly free | 42 | mostly unfree | 55.3 | problematic | 63.06 | authoritarian regime | 2.8 |
India | partly free | 66 | mostly unfree | 52.9 | very serious | 36.62 | flawed democracy | 6.61 |
Comoros | partly free | 42 | mostly unfree | 53.5 | problematic | 62.25 | authoritarian regime | 3.09 |
Kenya | partly free | 52 | mostly unfree | 52.5 | difficult | 51.15 | hybrid regime | 5.05 |
Sri Lanka | partly free | 54 | mostly unfree | 52.2 | difficult | 45.85 | flawed democracy | 6.14 |
Burkina Faso | not free | 30 | mostly unfree | 56.2 | problematic | 67.64 | authoritarian regime | 3.73 |
Mozambique | partly free | 45 | mostly unfree | 52.5 | problematic | 56.13 | authoritarian regime | 3.51 |
Mauritania | partly free | 36 | mostly unfree | 55.3 | problematic | 59.45 | authoritarian regime | 3.92 |
Federated States of Micronesia | free | 92 | moderately free | 62.6 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
The Bahamas | free | 91 | moderately free | 62.6 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Qatar | not free | 25 | moderately free | 68.6 | problematic | 55.28 | authoritarian regime | 3.24 |
Thailand | not free | 30 | moderately free | 60.6 | problematic | 55.24 | flawed democracy | 6.04 |
Guinea-Bissau | partly free | 43 | repressed | 44.6 | problematic | 61.57 | authoritarian regime | 2.63 |
Nigeria | partly free | 43 | mostly unfree | 53.9 | difficult | 49.56 | hybrid regime | 4.1 |
Kiribati | free | 91 | mostly unfree | 58.8 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Grenada | free | 89 | n/a | — | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | free | 89 | n/a | — | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Guinea | not free | 30 | mostly unfree | 53.2 | problematic | 59.51 | authoritarian regime | 3.08 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | free | 84 | moderately free | 61.5 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Tanzania | partly free | 36 | moderately free | 60 | difficult | 44.02 | hybrid regime | 5.1 |
Honduras | partly free | 48 | mostly unfree | 58.7 | very serious | 32.65 | hybrid regime | 5.36 |
Maldives | partly free | 41 | repressed | 46.6 | problematic | 56.93 | n/a | — |
Morocco | partly free | 37 | mostly unfree | 58.4 | difficult | 43.69 | hybrid regime | 5.04 |
Vanuatu | free | 82 | moderately free | 62.1 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Antigua and Barbuda | free | 85 | n/a | — | problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
Lebanon | partly free | 43 | repressed | 45.6 | difficult | 50.46 | hybrid regime | 4.16 |
Haiti | not free | 31 | repressed | 49.9 | problematic | 57.38 | hybrid regime | 4.22 |
Mali | not free | 29 | mostly unfree | 54.5 | difficult | 52.29 | authoritarian regime | 3.93 |
Jordan | not free | 33 | mostly unfree | 58.8 | difficult | 42.79 | authoritarian regime | 3.62 |
Brunei | not free | 28 | moderately free | 65.7 | difficult | 44.2 | n/a | — |
Gabon | not free | 20 | mostly unfree | 56.1 | problematic | 58.12 | authoritarian regime | 3.54 |
Uganda | not free | 35 | mostly unfree | 51.4 | difficult | 46.08 | hybrid regime | 4.94 |
Kyrgyzstan | not free | 27 | mostly unfree | 55.8 | difficult | 49.91 | hybrid regime | 4.21 |
Kuwait | partly free | 37 | mostly unfree | 56.7 | very serious | 38.84 | authoritarian regime | 3.8 |
Bangladesh | partly free | 40 | mostly unfree | 54.4 | very serious | 35.31 | hybrid regime | 5.99 |
United Arab Emirates | not free | 18 | mostly free | 70.9 | difficult | 42.99 | authoritarian regime | 2.7 |
Kazakhstan | not free | 23 | moderately free | 62.1 | difficult | 45.87 | authoritarian regime | 3.14 |
Angola | not free | 28 | mostly unfree | 53 | difficult | 48.3 | authoritarian regime | 3.66 |
Solomon Islands | free | 76 | mostly unfree | 56.9 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Pakistan | partly free | 37 | repressed | 49.4 | very serious | 39.95 | hybrid regime | 4.31 |
Republic of the Congo | not free | 17 | repressed | 48.1 | problematic | 60.42 | authoritarian regime | 3.11 |
Eswatini | not free | 17 | mostly unfree | 54.9 | difficult | 52.66 | authoritarian regime | 3.08 |
Turkey | not free | 32 | mostly unfree | 56.9 | very serious | 33.97 | hybrid regime | 4.48 |
Cambodia | not free | 24 | mostly unfree | 56.5 | difficult | 42.02 | authoritarian regime | 3.1 |
Rwanda | not free | 23 | mostly unfree | 52.2 | difficult | 46.58 | authoritarian regime | 3.1 |
Algeria | not free | 32 | repressed | 43.2 | difficult | 45.74 | authoritarian regime | 3.77 |
Oman | not free | 24 | mostly unfree | 58.5 | very serious | 37.87 | authoritarian regime | 3 |
Chad | not free | 15 | mostly unfree | 52 | difficult | 53.73 | authoritarian regime | 1.55 |
Ethiopia | not free | 21 | repressed | 48.3 | difficult | 47.7 | authoritarian regime | 3.38 |
Djibouti | not free | 24 | mostly unfree | 56.1 | very serious | 35.87 | authoritarian regime | 2.71 |
Zimbabwe | not free | 28 | repressed | 39 | difficult | 48.17 | authoritarian regime | 3.16 |
Ukraine | partly free | 50 | n/a | — | problematic | 61.19 | hybrid regime | 5.81 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | not free | 19 | repressed | 47.9 | difficult | 48.55 | authoritarian regime | 1.13 |
Uzbekistan | not free | 12 | mostly unfree | 56.5 | difficult | 45.73 | authoritarian regime | 2.12 |
Cameroon | not free | 15 | mostly unfree | 51.9 | difficult | 45.58 | authoritarian regime | 2.77 |
Nicaragua | not free | 19 | mostly unfree | 54.9 | very serious | 37.09 | authoritarian regime | 3.6 |
Azerbaijan | not free | 9 | moderately free | 61.4 | very serious | 39.93 | authoritarian regime | 2.68 |
Burundi | not free | 14 | repressed | 41.9 | difficult | 52.14 | authoritarian regime | 2.14 |
Central African Republic | not free | 7 | repressed | 43.8 | problematic | 57.56 | authoritarian regime | 1.32 |
Vietnam | not free | 19 | moderately free | 61.8 | very serious | 24.58 | authoritarian regime | 2.94 |
Russia | not free | 16 | mostly unfree | 53.8 | very serious | 34.77 | authoritarian regime | 3.31 |
Bahrain | not free | 12 | moderately free | 62.5 | very serious | 30.59 | authoritarian regime | 2.49 |
Equatorial Guinea | not free | 5 | repressed | 48.3 | difficult | 50.35 | authoritarian regime | 1.92 |
Egypt | not free | 18 | repressed | 49.6 | very serious | 33.37 | authoritarian regime | 2.93 |
Laos | not free | 13 | mostly unfree | 50.3 | very serious | 36.66 | authoritarian regime | 1.77 |
Saudi Arabia | not free | 8 | mostly unfree | 58.3 | very serious | 32.43 | authoritarian regime | 2.08 |
Belarus | not free | 8 | mostly unfree | 51 | very serious | 37.17 | authoritarian regime | 2.59 |
Tajikistan | not free | 7 | mostly unfree | 50.6 | very serious | 39.06 | authoritarian regime | 1.94 |
San Marino | free | 97 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Marshall Islands | free | 93 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Tuvalu | free | 93 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Hong Kong | partly free | 42 | n/a | — | difficult | 44.86 | hybrid regime | 5.57 |
Palau | free | 92 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Burma | not free | 9 | repressed | 46.5 | very serious | 28.26 | authoritarian regime | 3.04 |
Sudan | not free | 10 | repressed | 32.8 | difficult | 40.83 | authoritarian regime | 2.54 |
Monaco | free | 84 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
China | not free | 9 | repressed | 48.3 | very serious | 22.97 | authoritarian regime | 2.27 |
Iran | not free | 12 | repressed | 42.2 | very serious | 24.81 | authoritarian regime | 2.2 |
Venezuela | not free | 15 | repressed | 25.8 | very serious | 36.99 | authoritarian regime | 2.76 |
Nauru | free | 77 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
Turkmenistan | not free | 2 | repressed | 46.5 | very serious | 25.82 | authoritarian regime | 1.72 |
Eritrea | not free | 3 | repressed | 39.5 | very serious | 27.86 | authoritarian regime | 2.15 |
Cuba | not free | 12 | repressed | 24.3 | very serious | 29 | authoritarian regime | 2.84 |
Iraq | not free | 29 | n/a | — | very serious | 32.94 | authoritarian regime | 3.62 |
Somalia | not free | 8 | n/a | — | difficult | 44.24 | n/a | — |
Libya | not free | 10 | n/a | — | difficult | 40.22 | authoritarian regime | 1.95 |
South Sudan | not free | 1 | n/a | — | difficult | 50.62 | n/a | — |
Afghanistan | not free | 8 | n/a | — | very serious | 39.75 | authoritarian regime | 2.85 |
Yemen | not free | 9 | n/a | — | very serious | 32.78 | authoritarian regime | 1.95 |
Palestine | n/a | — | n/a | — | very serious | 37.86 | authoritarian regime | 3.83 |
Syria | not free | 1 | n/a | — | very serious | 27.22 | authoritarian regime | 1.43 |
North Korea | not free | 3 | repressed | 2.9 | very serious | 21.72 | authoritarian regime | 1.08 |
Disputed territories
Country | Freedom in the World 2023[13] | Score | Press Freedom Index 2023[3] | Score |
---|---|---|---|---|
Northern Cyprus | free | 76 | problematic | 61.73 |
West Bank | not free | 22 | very serious | 37.86 |
Gaza Strip | not free | 11 | very serious | 37.86 |
Western Sahara | not free | 4 | difficult | 43.69 |
Somaliland | partly free | 44 | n/a | — |
Abkhazia | partly free | 39 | n/a | — |
Artsakh | partly free | 37 | n/a | — |
Azad Kashmir | not free | 29 | n/a | — |
Jammu and Kashmir | not free | 27 | n/a | — |
Transnistria | not free | 18 | n/a | — |
South Ossetia | not free | 12 | n/a | — |
Crimea | not free | 4 | n/a | — |
Novorossiya | not free | 3 | n/a | — |
Tibet | not free | 1 | n/a | — |
See also
- Democracy indices
- Democracy-Dictatorship Index
- Areopagitica, writing by John Milton on the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England
- Censorship by country
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Ease of doing business index
- Freedom House
- Freedom in the World
- Indices of economic freedom
- Internet censorship and surveillance by country
- Media transparency
- Transparency (behavior)
- Transparency (market)
- United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
Notes and references
- ↑ "Human Freedom Index". www.cato.org/human-freedom-index. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
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- Economic Freedom of the World. The Fraser Institute. Archived from the original on 2006-09-04.
- Freedom in the World. Freedom House.
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- "Democracy continues its disturbing retreat". The Economist.
- Catalogue of Indices 2016 - Global Observatory
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