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Since 1978, Freedom House has published Freedom in the World, ======= an annual comparative assessment 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. »»»> 1.2 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. Sixty countries representing just over 1.2 billion people (31%) 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 43 countries are not free. The 2.4 billion inhabitants (22%) of these countries, nearly one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. in addition, 2007 marked the second consecutive year that the survey registered a decline in freedom, representing the first two-year setback in the past 15 years. In all, nearly four times as many countries showed significant declines during the year as registered improvements. Thailand and Togo both moved from Not Free to Partly Free. One territory, the Palestinian Authority, declined from Partly Free to Not Free. No country improved from Partly Free or Not Free to a designation of Free, or declined from Free to a designation of Partly Free or 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, 2008, published by Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=410&year=2008.
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Since 1978, Freedom House has published Freedom in the World, ======= an annual comparative assessment 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. Sixty countries representing just over 1.2 billion people (31%) 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 43 countries are not free. The 2.4 billion inhabitants (22%) of these countries, nearly one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. in addition, 2007 marked the second consecutive year that the survey registered a decline in freedom, representing the first two-year setback in the past 15 years. In all, nearly four times as many countries showed significant declines during the year as registered improvements. Thailand and Togo both moved from Not Free to Partly Free. One territory, the Palestinian Authority, declined from Partly Free to Not Free. No country improved from Partly Free or Not Free to a designation of Free, or declined from Free to a designation of Partly Free or 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
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 Latvia Monaco Panama St. Vincent and the Grenadines South Korea Taiwan
Ranking: 2 Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Benin Botswana Brazil Croatia
Dominican Republic Mauritius 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 Mali Mexico Peru Senegal Serbia Ukraine
Ranking: 3 Albania Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Honduras Macedonia Montenegro Mozambique Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Paraguay Seychelles Sierra Leone Turkey
Ranking: 3.5 Bosnia and Herzegovina East Timor Guatemala Kenya Liberia Madagascar Moldova Niger Philippines Solomon Islands Tanzania Zambia
Ranking: 4 Burkina Faso
Comoros Georgia Guinea-Bissau Kuwait Malawi Malaysia Mauritania Nigeria Sri Lanka Tonga Venezuela
Ranking: 4.5 Armenia Bangladesh Burundi Gambia Haiti Jordan Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon Morocco Nepal Singapore Uganda
Ranking: 5 Afghanistan Bahrain Central African Republic Djibouti Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Thailand Togo 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 United Arab Emirates
Ranking: 6 Cameroon Côte d’Ivoire
Iran Iraq Swaziland Tunisia Vietnam
Ranking: 6.5 Belarus Chad China Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Laos Saudi Arabia
Syria Zimbabwe
Ranking: 7 Cuba Libya Myanmar (Burma) North Korea Somalia Sudan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
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