List of freedom indices explained

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 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.
• 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.
• 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.^[3]
  • 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.
  • 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• US
  • The CIRI Human Rights Data Project measures a range of human, civil, women's, and workers' rights.^[7] It was created in 1994 and is now hosted by the University of Connecticut.^[8] In its 2011 report, the U.S. was ranked 38th in overall human rights.^[9]
  • 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.
  • 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.^[10]
  • 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.^[11]

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.

Index	Scale
Freedom in the World	1 free	3 partly free	5 not free
Index of Economic Freedom	1 free	2 mostly free	3 moderately free	4 mostly unfree	5 repressed
World Press Freedom Index	1 good	2 satisfactory	3 problematic	4 difficult	5 very serious
The Economist Democracy Index	1 full democracy	2 flawed democracy	3 hybrid regime	5 authoritarian

List of scores by country

Country	Freedom in the World 2024^[12]	Score change since 2023	Index of Economic Freedom 2024^[13]	Score	Press Freedom Index 2023	Score	Democracy Index 2023^[14]	Score
Finland	1 100	0	2 mostly free	76.3	1 good	87.94	1 full democracy	9.30
New Zealand	1 99	0	2 mostly free	77.8	2 satisfactory	84.23	1 full democracy	9.61
Sweden	1 99	-1	2 mostly free	77.5	1 good	88.15	1 full democracy	9.39
Norway	1 98	-2	2 mostly free	77.5	1 good	95.18	1 full democracy	9.81
Canada	1 97	-1	2 mostly free	72.4	2 satisfactory	83.53	1 full democracy	8.69
Denmark	1 97	0	2 mostly free	77.8	1 good	89.48	1 full democracy	9.28
Ireland	1 97	0	1 free	82.6	1 good	89.91	1 full democracy	9.19
Luxembourg	1 97	0	2 mostly free	79.2	2 satisfactory	81.98	1 full democracy	8.81
Netherlands	1 97	0	2 mostly free	77.3	1 good	87	1 full democracy	9.00
San Marino	1 97	0	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
Belgium	1 96	0	3 moderately free	65.6	2 satisfactory	76.47	2 flawed democracy	7.64
Japan	1 96	0	3 moderately free	67.5	3 problematic	63.95	1 full democracy	8.40
Portugal	1 96	0	3 moderately free	68.7	2 satisfactory	84.6	2 flawed democracy	7.75
Slovenia	1 96	+1	3 moderately free	65.9	2 satisfactory	70.59	2 flawed democracy	7.75
Switzerland	1 96	0	1 free	83.0	2 satisfactory	84.4	1 full democracy	9.14
Uruguay	1 96	0	3 moderately free	69.8	2 satisfactory	70.33	1 full democracy	8.66
Australia	1 95	0	2 mostly free	76.2	2 satisfactory	78.24	1 full democracy	8.66
Estonia	1 95	+1	2 mostly free	77.8	1 good	85.31	2 flawed democracy	7.96
Barbados	1 94	0	3 moderately free	66.8	n/a	—	n/a	—
Chile	1 94	0	2 mostly free	71.4	3 problematic	60.09	2 flawed democracy	7.98
	1 94	+2	2 mostly free	70.2	2 satisfactory	83.58	2 flawed democracy	7.97
Iceland	1 94	0	2 mostly free	70.5	2 satisfactory	83.19	1 full democracy	9.45
	1 94	0	1 free	80.0	2 satisfactory	75.54	1 full democracy	8.92
Andorra	1 93	0	n/a	—	2 satisfactory	75.05	n/a	—
Austria	1 93	0	3 moderately free	68.4	2 satisfactory	77.3	1 full democracy	8.28
Dominica	1 93	0	4 mostly unfree	54.0	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
Germany	1 93	-1	2 mostly free	72.1	2 satisfactory	81.91	1 full democracy	8.80
Marshall Islands	1 93	0	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
Tuvalu	1 93	0	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
	1 92	0	3 moderately free	65.8	2 satisfactory	75.72	2 flawed democracy	7.65
Cyprus	1 92	0	2 mostly free	72.2	3 problematic	68.62	2 flawed democracy	7.38
	1 92	0	3 moderately free	61.0	n/a	—	n/a	—
Palau	1 92	0	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
	1 92	0	3 moderately free	62.2	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
Costa Rica	1 91	0	3 moderately free	67.7	2 satisfactory	80.2	1 full democracy	8.29
	1 91	0	3 moderately free	62.5	n/a	—	n/a	—
United Kingdom	1 91	-2	3 moderately free	68.6	2 satisfactory	78.51	1 full democracy	8.28
Italy	1 90	0	3 moderately free	60.1	2 satisfactory	72.05	2 flawed democracy	7.69
Kiribati	1 90	-1	4 mostly unfree	51.3	n/a	—	n/a	—
Liechtenstein	1 90	0	n/a	—	2 satisfactory	84.47	n/a	—
Slovakia	1 90	0	3 moderately free	68.1	2 satisfactory	83.22	2 flawed democracy	7.07
Spain	1 90	0	3 moderately free	63.3	2 satisfactory	75.37	1full democracy	8.07
	1 90	-1	4 mostly unfree	59.8	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
France	1 89	0	3 moderately free	62.5	2 satisfactory	78.72	1full democracy	8.07
Grenada	1 89	0	n/a	—	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
Lithuania	1 89	0	2 mostly free	72.9	1 good	86.79	2 flawed democracy	7.31
	1 89	0	n/a	—	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
Latvia	1 88	0	2 mostly free	71.5	2 satisfactory	83.27	2 flawed democracy	7.38
Belize	1 87	0	3 moderately free	61.2	2 satisfactory	70.49	n/a	—
Malta	1 87	-2	3 moderately free	64.5	3 problematic	59.76	2 flawed democracy	7.93
Antigua and Barbuda	1 85	0	n/a	—	3 problematic	58.36	n/a	—
Argentina	1 85	0	5 repressed	49.9	2 satisfactory	73.36	2 flawed democracy	6.62
Greece	1 85	-1	4 mostly unfree	55.1	3 problematic	55.2	1 full democracy	8.14
Mauritius	1 85	0	2 mostly free	71.5	3 problematic	65.56	1 full democracy	8.14
Mongolia	1 84	0	3 moderately free	60.6	3 problematic	59.33	2 flawed democracy	6.48
Samoa	1 84	+1	3 moderately free	67.2	2 satisfactory	82.15	n/a	—
	1 84	0	3 moderately free	60.5	n/a	—	n/a	—
Croatia	1 83	-1	3 moderately free	67.2	2 satisfactory	71.95	2 flawed democracy	6.50
Panama	1 83	0	3 moderately free	64.1	3 problematic	63.67	2 flawed democracy	6.91
Romania	1 83	0	3 moderately free	64.4	3 problematic	69.04	2 flawed democracy	6.45
	1 83	0	2 mostly free	73.1	2 satisfactory	70.83	1 full democracy	8.09
United States	1 83	0	2 mostly free	70.1	2 satisfactory	71.22	2 flawed democracy	7.85
Monaco	1 82	-2	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
Trinidad and Tobago	1 82	0	3 moderately free	60.4	2 satisfactory	76.54	2 flawed democracy	7.16
Vanuatu	1 82	0	3 moderately free	62.2	n/a	—	n/a	—
Tonga	1 81	0	4 mostly unfree	59.2	2 satisfactory	71.29	n/a	—
Ghana	1 80	0	4 mostly unfree	55.8	3 problematic	65.93	2 flawed democracy	6.30
Jamaica	1 80	0	3 moderately free	68.1	2 satisfactory	75.89	2 flawed democracy	7.06
Poland	1 80	-1	3 moderately free	66.0	3 problematic	67.66	2 flawed democracy	7.18
Seychelles	1 79	0	3 moderately free	60.4	2 satisfactory	75.71	n/a	—
South Africa	1 79	0	4 mostly unfree	55.3	2 satisfactory	78.6	2 flawed democracy	7.05
Suriname	1 79	0	5 repressed	46.7	2 satisfactory	70.62	2 flawed democracy	6.88
Bulgaria	1 78	-1	3 moderately free	68.5	3 problematic	62.98	2 flawed democracy	6.41
Namibia	1 77	0	4 mostly unfree	57.5	2 satisfactory	80.91	2 flawed democracy	6.52
Nauru	1 77	0	n/a	—	n/a	—	n/a	—
Solomon Islands	1 75	-1	4 mostly unfree	55.0	n/a	—	n/a	—
Israel	1 74	-3	2 mostly free	70.1	3 problematic	57.57	2 flawed democracy	7.80
Guyana	1 73	0	4 mostly unfree	57.3	3 problematic	67.5	2 flawed democracy	6.26
Botswana	1 72	0	3 moderately free	68.0	3 problematic	64.61	2 flawed democracy	7.73
Brazil	1 72	0	4 mostly unfree	53.2	3 problematic	58.67	2 flawed democracy	6.68
Timor-Leste	1 72	0	4 mostly unfree	50.2	2 satisfactory	84.49	2 flawed democracy	7.06
Colombia	1 70	0	4 mostly unfree	59.2	4 difficult	45.23	2 flawed democracy	6.55
Montenegro	3 69	+2	4 mostly unfree	59.7	2 satisfactory	74.28	2 flawed democracy	6.67
Albania	3 68	+1	3 moderately free	64.8	3 problematic	57.86	2 flawed democracy	6.28
Dominican Republic	3 68	0	3 moderately free	62.9	2 satisfactory	71.88	2 flawed democracy	6.44
Ecuador	3 67	-3	4 mostly unfree	55.0	3 problematic	60.51	3 hybrid regime	5.41
	3 67	-1	3 moderately free	61.4	2 satisfactory	74.35	2 flawed democracy	6.03
Senegal	3 67	-1	4 mostly unfree	55.4	3 problematic	55.82	3 hybrid regime	5.48
	3 66	0	5 repressed	43.5	4 difficult	51.09	3 hybrid regime	4.20
Fiji	3 66	+7	4 mostly unfree	58.0	3 problematic	59.27	3 hybrid regime	5.55
India	3 66	0	4 mostly unfree	52.9	5 very serious	36.62	2 flawed democracy	7.18
Lesotho	1 66	0	4 mostly unfree	51.9	3 problematic	64.29	2 flawed democracy	6.06
Malawi	3 66	0	4 mostly unfree	52.1	3 problematic	60.34	3 hybrid regime	5.85
Peru	3 66	-4	3 moderately free	64.8	4 difficult	52.74	3 hybrid regime	5.81
Hungary	3 65	-1	3 moderately free	61.2	3 problematic	62.96	2 flawed democracy	6.72
Liberia	3 64	+4	5 repressed	49.9	3 problematic	64.34	3 hybrid regime	5.57
Bhutan	3 63	+2	4 mostly unfree	55.4	3 problematic	59.25	3 hybrid regime	5.54
Paraguay	3 63	-2	3 moderately free	60.1	3 problematic	55.96	2 flawed democracy	6.00
Nepal	3 62	+4	4 mostly unfree	52.1	3 problematic	57.89	3 hybrid regime	4.60
Benin	3 61	+2	4 mostly unfree	57.7	4 difficult	52.44	3 hybrid regime	4.68
	3 61	-1	4 mostly unfree	57.1	2 satisfactory	77.62	2 flawed democracy	6.23
Papua New Guinea	3 61	0	5 repressed	49.4	3 problematic	67.62	2 flawed democracy	6.03
	3 60	0	3 moderately free	60.6	3 problematic	68.38	n/a	—
Mexico	3 60	0	3 moderately free	62.0	4 difficult	47.98	3 hybrid regime	5.14
Sierra Leone	3 60	-3	5 repressed	44.6	3 problematic	62.55	3 hybrid regime	4.32
Georgia	3 58	0	3 moderately free	68.4	3 problematic	61.69	3 hybrid regime	5.20
Madagascar	3 58	-3	4 mostly unfree	57.3	3 problematic	56.66	3 hybrid regime	5.26
Philippines	3 58	0	4 mostly unfree	59.0	4 difficult	46.21	2 flawed democracy	6.66
Indonesia	3 57	-1	3 moderately free	63.5	4 difficult	54.83	2 flawed democracy	6.53
Serbia	3 57	-3	3 moderately free	62.7	3 problematic	59.16	2 flawed democracy	6.33
Armenia	3 54	0	3 moderately free	64.9	2 satisfactory	70.61	3 hybrid regime	5.42
Sri Lanka	3 54	0	5 repressed	49.2	4 difficult	45.85	2 flawed democracy	6.17
Zambia	3 54	0	5 repressed	48.4	3 problematic	59.41	3 hybrid regime	5.80
El Salvador	3 53	-3	4 mostly unfree	54.4	4 difficult	51.36	3 hybrid regime	4.71
Malaysia	3 53	0	3 moderately free	65.7	3 problematic	62.83	2 flawed democracy	7.29
Kenya	3 52	0	4 mostly unfree	53.6	4 difficult	51.15	3 hybrid regime	5.05
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3 51	-1	3 moderately free	62.0	3 problematic	65.43	3 hybrid regime	5.00
Tunisia	3 51	-5	5 repressed	48.8	4 difficult	50.11	3 hybrid regime	5.51
	3 50	+2	4 mostly unfree	58.2	2 satisfactory	71.06	3 hybrid regime	4.47
Cote d'Ivoire	3 49	0	4 mostly unfree	58.4	3 problematic	68.83	3 hybrid regime	4.22
Ukraine	3 49	-1	n/a	—	3 problematic	61.19	3 hybrid regime	5.06
Honduras	3 48	0	4 mostly unfree	58.6	5 very serious	32.65	3 hybrid regime	4.98
Singapore	3 48	+1	1 free	83.5	4 difficult	47.88	2 flawed democracy	6.18
Guatemala	3 46	-3	3 moderately free	62.4	4 difficult	48.12	3 hybrid regime	4.47
Maldives	3 44	+3	5 repressed	47.8	3 problematic	56.93	n/a	—
Mozambique	3 44	-1	4 mostly unfree	50.7	3 problematic	56.13	5 authoritarian	3.51
Nigeria	3 44	+1	4 mostly unfree	53.1	4 difficult	49.56	3 hybrid regime	4.23
Guinea-Bissau	3 43	0	5 repressed	42.7	3 problematic	61.57	5 authoritarian	2.45
Comoros	3 42	0	4 mostly unfree	52.0	3 problematic	62.25	5 authoritarian	3.04
Lebanon	3 42	-1	5 repressed	48.3	4 difficult	50.46	5 authoritarian	3.56
Togo	3 42	0	4 mostly unfree	50.9	3 problematic	63.06	5 authoritarian	2.99
Hong Kong	3 41	-1	n/a	—	4 difficult	44.86	3 hybrid regime	5.24
Bangladesh	3 40	0	4 mostly unfree	54.4	5 very serious	35.31	3 hybrid regime	5.87
Mauritania	3 39	+3	4 mostly unfree	55.3	3 problematic	59.45	3 hybrid regime	4.14
Kuwait	3 38	+1	4 mostly unfree	58.5	5 very serious	38.84	5 authoritarian	3.50
Morocco	3 37	0	4 mostly unfree	56.8	4 difficult	43.69	3 hybrid regime	5.04
	3 36	0	4 mostly unfree	59.1	4 difficult	44.02	3 hybrid regime	5.35
Thailand	3 36	+6	4 mostly unfree	59.0	3 problematic	55.24	2 flawed democracy	6.35
Pakistan	3 35	-2	5 repressed	49.5	5 very serious	39.95	3 hybrid regime	4.25
Uganda	5 34	-1	4 mostly unfree	50.7	4 difficult	46.08	3 hybrid regime	4.49
Jordan	5 33	0	4 mostly unfree	58.3	4 difficult	42.79	5 authoritarian	3.04
Niger	5 33	-18	4 mostly unfree	52.3	3 problematic	66.84	5 authoritarian	2.37
Turkey	5 33	+1	4 mostly unfree	56.2	5 very serious	33.97	3 hybrid regime	4.33
Algeria	5 32	0	5 repressed	43.9	4 difficult	45.74	5 authoritarian	3.66
Guinea	5 30	0	4 mostly unfree	53.3	3 problematic	59.51	5 authoritarian	2.21
Haiti	5 30	-1	5 repressed	48.2	3 problematic	57.38	5 authoritarian	2.81
Iraq	5 30	+1	n/a	—	5 very serious	32.94	5 authoritarian	2.88
Angola	5 28	0	4 mostly unfree	54.3	4 difficult	48.3	3 hybrid regime	4.18
	5 28	0	3 moderately free	65.9	4 difficult	44.2	n/a	—
Burkina Faso	5 27	-3	4 mostly unfree	51.9	3 problematic	67.64	5 authoritarian	2.73
Kyrgyzstan	5 27	0	4 mostly unfree	55.2	4 difficult	49.91	5 authoritarian	3.70
Zimbabwe	5 27	-1	5 repressed	38.2	4 difficult	48.17	5 authoritarian	3.04
Mali	5 26	-3	4 mostly unfree	52.5	4 difficult	52.29	5 authoritarian	2.58
Qatar	5 25	0	3 moderately free	68.8	3 problematic	55.28	5 authoritarian	3.65
Djibouti	5 24	0	4 mostly unfree	55.8	5 very serious	35.87	5 authoritarian	2.70
Oman	5 24	0	3 moderately free	62.9	5 very serious	37.87	5 authoritarian	3.12
Cambodia	5 23	-1	4 mostly unfree	55.6	4 difficult	42.02	5 authoritarian	3.05
Kazakhstan	5 23	0	3 moderately free	62.0	4 difficult	45.87	5 authoritarian	3.08
Rwanda	5 23	0	4 mostly unfree	51.6	4 difficult	46.58	5 authoritarian	3.30
Ethiopia	5 20	-1	5 repressed	47.9	4 difficult	47.7	5 authoritarian	3.37
Gabon	5 20	0	4 mostly unfree	56.9	3 problematic	58.12	5 authoritarian	2.18
	5 19	0	5 repressed	47.6	4 difficult	48.55	5 authoritarian	1.68
	5 19	0	3 moderately free	62.8	5 very serious	24.58	5 authoritarian	2.62
Egypt	5 18	0	5 repressed	49.7	5 very serious	33.37	5 authoritarian	2.93
United Arab Emirates	5 18	0	2 mostly free	71.1	4 difficult	42.99	5 authoritarian	3.01
	5 17	0	4 mostly unfree	55.6	4 difficult	52.66	5 authoritarian	2.78
	5 17	0	5 repressed	47.8	3 problematic	60.42	5 authoritarian	2.79
Nicaragua	5 16	-3	4 mostly unfree	53.4	5 very serious	37.09	5 authoritarian	2.26
Cameroon	5 15	0	4 mostly unfree	53.6	4 difficult	45.58	5 authoritarian	2.56
Chad	5 15	0	4 mostly unfree	51.4	4 difficult	53.73	5 authoritarian	1.67
	5 15	0	5 repressed	28.1	5 very serious	36.99	5 authoritarian	2.31
Burundi	5 14	0	5 repressed	38.4	4 difficult	52.14	5 authoritarian	2.13
	5 13	0	4 mostly unfree	50.6	5 very serious	36.66	5 authoritarian	1.71
	5 13	-3	4 mostly unfree	52.0	5 very serious	34.77	5 authoritarian	2.22
Bahrain	5 12	0	3 moderately free	63.4	5 very serious	30.59	5 authoritarian	2.52
Cuba	5 12	0	5 repressed	25.7	5 very serious	29	5 authoritarian	2.65
Uzbekistan	5 12	0	4 mostly unfree	55.9	4 difficult	45.73	5 authoritarian	2.12
	5 11	-1	5 repressed	41.2	5 very serious	24.81	5 authoritarian	1.96
Yemen	5 10	+1	n/a	—	5 very serious	32.78	5 authoritarian	1.95
China	5 9	0	5 repressed	48.5	5 very serious	22.97	5 authoritarian	2.12
Libya	5 9	-1	n/a	—	4 difficult	40.22	5 authoritarian	1.78
Belarus	5 8	0	5 repressed	48.4	5 very serious	37.17	5 authoritarian	1.99
	5 8	-1	5 repressed	42.2	5 very serious	28.26	5 authoritarian	0.85
Saudi Arabia	5 8	0	3 moderately free	61.9	5 very serious	32.43	5 authoritarian	2.08
Somalia	5 8	0	n/a	—	4 difficult	44.24	n/a	—
Azerbaijan	5 7	-2	3 moderately free	61.6	5 very serious	39.93	5 authoritarian	2.80
Afghanistan	5 6	-2	n/a	—	5 very serious	39.75	5 authoritarian	0.26
Sudan	5 6	-4	5 repressed	33.9	4 difficult	40.83	5 authoritarian	1.76
Central African Republic	5 5	-2	5 repressed	41.3	3 problematic	57.56	5 authoritarian	1.18
Equatorial Guinea	5 5	0	5 repressed	47.7	4 difficult	50.35	5 authoritarian	1.92
Tajikistan	5 5	-2	4 mostly unfree	51.3	5 very serious	39.06	5 authoritarian	1.94
Eritrea	5 3	0	5 repressed	39.5	5 very serious	27.86	5 authoritarian	1.97
	5 3	0	5 repressed	2.9	5 very serious	21.72	5 authoritarian	1.08
Turkmenistan	5 2	0	5 repressed	46.3	5 very serious	25.82	5 authoritarian	1.66
	5 1	0	n/a	—	4 difficult	50.62	n/a	—
	5 1	0	n/a	—	5 very serious	27.22	5 authoritarian	1.43
	n/a	—	n/a	—	5 very serious	37.86	5 authoritarian	3.47

Disputed territories

Country	Freedom in the World 2024	Score change since 2023	Press Freedom Index 2023	Score
	1 76	0	3 problematic	61.73
	3 43	-1	n/a	—
	3 39	0	n/a	—
	5 29	0	n/a	—
	5 22	0	5 very serious	37.86
	5 17	-1	n/a	—
	5 12	0	n/a	—
	5 8	-3	5 very serious	37.86
Western Sahara	5 4	0	4 difficult	43.69
	5 2	-2	n/a	—
	5 0	-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

External links

• Book: Economic Freedom of the World. The Fraser Institute. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060904154024/http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html. 2006-09-04.
• Book: Freedom in the World. Freedom House.
• Book: Index of Economic Freedom . The Wall Street Journal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080201022352/http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/ . 2008-02-01 .
• Book: World Index of Moral Freedom. 2 April 2016. Foundation for the Advancement of Liberty .
• News: Democracy continues its disturbing retreat. The Economist .
• Catalogue of Indices 2016 - Global Observatory

Notes and References

1. Web site: Human Freedom Index. www.cato.org/human-freedom-index. September 16, 2016. September 14, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160914081947/http://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index. live.
2. News: World Freedom Index 2013: Canadian Fraser Institute Ranks Countries . Craggs, Ryan . Huffington Post . January 14, 2013 . March 26, 2013 . October 19, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171019083355/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/world-freedom-index-2013_n_2440620.html . live .
3. Web site: MaxRange: Analyzing political regimes and democratization processes. School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Halmstad University. Sweden. April 30, 2015. May 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20180817193254/http://www.hh.se/english/schoolofeducationhumanitiesandsocialsciences/research/maxrange.65441985_en.html. August 17, 2018. dead.
4. Web site: International IDEA . International IDEA . Dec 23, 2022 . Jan 2, 2023.
5. Web site: Global Corruption Index Global Corruption & ESG Indexes . 2022-07-08.
6. Web site: Democracy Index 2021: the China challenge . registration . 2022-08-19 . . en-GB.
7. Web site: CIRI Human Rights Data Project. humanrightsdat.com. October 25, 2013. April 8, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200408195846/http://www.humanrightsdata.com/. live.
8. Web site: Annual International Human Rights Ratings Announced. Michael Kirk. University of Connecticut. December 10, 2010. October 25, 2013. October 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195135/http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2010/12/annual-international-human-rights-ratings-announced/. live.
9. Web site: Human Rights in 2011: The CIRI Report. CIRI Human Rights Data Project. August 29, 2013. October 25, 2013. October 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192919/http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.jp/. live.
10. News: Country Rankings. 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. Heritage Foundation. 2021. 2014-08-07. 2017-09-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170916153902/http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking. live.
11. Web site: Polity IV Project. Table footnote. 11 Jan 2020. 4 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200504221240/http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm. live.
12. Web site: Countries and Territories . 2024-03-02 . Freedom House . en.
13. Web site: Foundation . The Heritage . Index of Economic Freedom: All Country Scores The Heritage Foundation . 2024-03-03 . Index of Economic Freedom The Heritage Foundation . en.
14. Web site: Democracy Index 2023 . 2024-03-03 . Economist Intelligence Unit . en-GB.