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Since 1978, Freedom House has published Freedom in the World, an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties around the world. Widely used by policy makers, journalists, and scholars, the 600-page survey is considered the definitive report on freedom around the globe. The ratings reflect global events from Dec. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2006. According to the survey, 90 countries are free. Their 3.0 billion inhabitants (47% of the world’s population) enjoy a broad range of rights. Fifty-eight countries representing 1.1 billion people (30%) are considered partly free. Political rights and civil liberties are more limited in these countries, in which corruption, dominant ruling parties, or, in some cases, ethnic or religious strife is often the norm. The survey finds that 45 countries are not free. The 2.4 billion inhabitants (23%) of these countries, nearly one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. In 2006, Guyana moved from Partly Free to Free, and Haiti and Nepal moved from Not Free to Partly Free. Thailand and the Republic of Congo moved from Partly Free to Not Free. The list below features only independent countries. Freedom House’s separate listing of territories reveals that four territories received the lowest possible political rights rating: Chechnya (Russia), Kashmir (Pakistan), Tibet (China), and Western Sahara (Morocco); of those, Chechnya and Tibet also received the lowest possible civil liberties ratings.
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- Countries are ranked according to political rights and civil liberties on a scale from 1.0 (most free) to 7.0 (least free).
Source: Freedom in the World, 2007, published by Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15 .
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Since 1978, Freedom House has published Freedom in the World, an annual comparative assessment of the state of political rights and civil liberties around the world. Widely used by policy makers, journalists, and scholars, the 600-page survey is considered the definitive report on freedom around the globe. The ratings reflect global events from Dec. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2006.
According to the survey, 90 countries are free. Their 3.0 billion inhabitants (47% of the world’s population) enjoy a broad range of rights. Fifty-eight countries representing 1.1 billion people (30%) are considered partly free. Political rights and civil liberties are more limited in these countries, in which corruption, dominant ruling parties, or, in some cases, ethnic or religious strife is often the norm. The survey finds that 45 countries are not free. The 2.4 billion inhabitants (23%) of these countries, nearly one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. In 2006, Guyana moved from Partly Free to Free, and Haiti and Nepal moved from Not Free to Partly Free. Thailand and the Republic of Congo moved from Partly Free to Not Free.
The list below features only independent countries. Freedom House’s separate listing of territories reveals that four territories received the lowest possible political rights rating: Chechnya (Russia), Kashmir (Pakistan), Tibet (China), and Western Sahara (Morocco); of those, Chechnya and Tibet also received the lowest possible civil liberties ratings.
Ranking: 1 Andorra Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belgium Canada Cape Verde Chile Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kiribati
Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru Netherlands New Zealand Norway Palau Poland Portugal St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tuvalu United Kingdom
United States Uruguay
Ranking: 1.5 Belize Bulgaria Ghana Greece Grenada Israel Japan Mauritius Monaco Panama St. Vincent and the Grenadines South Korea Taiwan
Ranking: 2 Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Benin Botswana Brazil Croatia
Dominican Republic Mali Mongolia Namibia Romania Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe South Africa Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Vanuatu
Ranking: 2.5 El Salvador Guyana India Indonesia Jamaica Lesotho Mexico Peru Senegal Serbia Ukraine
Ranking: 3 Albania Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Colombia Ecuador Georgia Honduras Kenya Macedonia Montenegro Nicaragua Niger Papua New Guinea Paraguay Philippines Seychelles Turkey
Ranking: 3.5 Comoros East Timor Guatemala Liberia Madagascar Malawi Moldova Mozambique Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Tanzania Zambia
Ranking: 4 Bangladesh Burkina Faso
Guinea-Bissau Kuwait Malaysia Nigeria Sri Lanka Tonga Venezuela
Ranking: 4.5 Armenia Burundi Central African Republic Gambia Haiti Jordan Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon Mauritania Morocco Nepal Singapore Uganda
Ranking: 5 Afghanistan Bahrain Djibouti Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Yemen
Ranking: 5.5 Algeria Angola Azerbaijan Bhutan Brunei Cambodia Congo, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Rep. of Egypt Guinea Kazakhstan Maldives
Oman Pakistan Qatar Russia Rwanda Tajikistan Thailand Togo Tunisia United Arab Emirates
Ranking: 6 Cameroon Chad
Iran Iraq Swaziland Vietnam
Ranking: 6.5 Belarus China Côte d’Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Laos Saudi Arabia
Syria Zimbabwe
Ranking: 7 Cuba Libya Myanmar (Burma) North Korea Somalia Sudan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
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