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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 ...
Partly free Indian Kashmir 26 6 20 Not free Nagorno-Karabakh -3 -3 0 Not free Northern Cyprus: 76 27 49 Free Pakistani Kashmir 29 9 20 Not free Somaliland: 43 17 26 Partly free South Ossetia: 12 3 9 Not free Taiwan: 94 38 56 Free Tibet: 0 -2 2 Not free Transnistria: 17 5 12 Not free West Bank: 22 4 18 Not free Western Sahara: 4 -3 7 Not free
This article includes a partial list of countries by economic freedom that shows the top 50 highest ranking countries and regions from two reports on economic freedom. The Economic Freedom of the World Index is a report published by the Fraser Institute in conjunction with the Economic Freedom Network, a Canadian group of independent research ...
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).
Democracy Ranking refers to countries (country-based democracies) with a population of one million or more and that are classified by Freedom House as "free" or at least as "partly free" (see also the Freedom House report). The Democracy Ranking makes explicit the "theoretical basis", which governs the theoretical self-understanding of the ...
Between 1995, the first edition of the Index, and 2008, the score for world economic freedom has increased, rising 2.6 points, according to the Index. [10]Between 2008 and 2011, however, the score decreased 60.2 to 59.7, though the 2011 score represents an increase of 2.2 points since the first edition in 1995.
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 ...
The 2006 State of World Liberty Index was created by combining the rankings of four other indexes of world liberty into one: the "2005 Economic Freedom of the World" Index (Fraser Institute), the "2006 Index of Economic Freedom" (The Heritage Foundation), the "2005 Freedom in the World" index (Freedom House), and the "2005 Press Freedom Index" (Reporters Without Borders).