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The top 3 African countries ranked by V-Dem Democracy indices Electoral Democracy metric in 2024 were Cape Verde, Seychelles, and South Africa. [2] The Freedom Index ranks states based on the protection of 'political and civil liberties and freedoms' that individuals receive including the freedom to participate in elections. [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. This article is 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 ...
Sources: Country Status and ratings overview 1973–2016, [15] [12] Number and percentages of electoral democracies 1989–2016, [16] Freedom in the World 2018 report covering 2017. [17] Notes: The years shown in the map and table above are the year the survey was released, the data shown covers the prior calendar year.
Countries designated "electoral democracies" in Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2023 survey, covering the year 2022. [ 2 ] Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based [ 3 ] non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant ...
Other components of the Freedom Index include human trafficking, sexual violence, female genital mutilation, and homicide. [2] The index rates countries on a scale from 10 (freest) to 0 (least free). In 2012, the freest countries/regions were New Zealand (8.88), Switzerland (8.82), and Hong Kong SAR, (8.81).
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the non-governmental organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.
On a scale of corruption established by Transparency International, Iraq and Afghanistan are two of the worst-ranked countries in the world, surpassed in corruption by only Myanmar and Somalia. [23] Despite high corruption, Iraq was the third most democratic country in the Middle East and North Africa in 2024. [5]
The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal in the United States. Countries and regions are assessed as free, mostly free, moderately free, mostly unfree, or repressed. [3] These lists are from private Western institutions and not from the UN or IMF.