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Since 1972, 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 January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008. According to the survey, global freedom deteriorated in 2008, marking the third consecutive year of decline. Sub-Saharan Africa and the non-Baltic former Soviet Union suffered the most marked drop in stability. In 2008, 89 countries were judged to be free. Their 3.0 billion inhabitants (47% of the world’s population) enjoy a broad range of rights. Sixty-two countries representing 1.35 billion people (32%) 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 found that 42 countries are not free. The 2.3 billion inhabitants (342%) of these countries, one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. Afghanistan’s status changed from Partly Free to Not Free.
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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, 2009, published by Freedom House. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=410&year=2009.
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Since 1972, 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 January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008.
According to the survey, global freedom deteriorated in 2008, marking the third consecutive year of decline. Sub-Saharan Africa and the non-Baltic former Soviet Union suffered the most marked drop in stability. In 2008, 89 countries were judged to be free. Their 3.0 billion inhabitants (47% of the world’s population) enjoy a broad range of rights. Sixty-two countries representing 1.35 billion people (32%) 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 found that 42 countries are not free. The 2.3 billion inhabitants (342%) of these countries, one-half of whom live in China, are denied most basic political rights and civil liberties. Afghanistan’s status changed from Partly Free to Not Free.
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 Ghana Greece Grenada Israel Italy Japan Latvia Monaco Panama St. Vincent and the Grenadines South Korea Taiwan
Ranking: 2 Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Benin Botswana Brazil Bulgaria 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 Serbia Ukraine
Ranking: 3 Albania Bolivia Ecuador Honduras Macedonia Montenegro Mozambique Paraguay Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Turkey Zambia
Ranking: 3.5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Colombia Comoros East Timor Guatemala Kenya Liberia Madagascar Nicaragua Niger Papua New Guinea Philippines Solomon Islands Tanzania
Ranking: 4 Bangladesh Burkina Faso
Georgia Guinea-Bissau Kuwait Malawi Malaysia Maldives Moldova Nepal Sri Lanka Tonga Venezuela
Ranking: 4.5 Bhutan Burundi Gambia Haiti Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon Morocco Nigeria Pakistan Singapore Thailand Uganda
Ranking: 5 Armenia Bahrain Central African Republic Djibouti Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Jordan Togo Yemen
Ranking: 5.5 Afghanistan Algeria Angola Azerbaijan Brunei Cambodia Congo, Rep. of Côte d’Ivoire Egypt Kazakhstan Mauritania
Oman Qatar Russia Rwanda Tajikistan United Arab Emirates
Ranking: 6 Cameroon Dem. Republic of Congo Guinea
Iran Iraq Swaziland Tunisia Vietnam
Ranking: 6.5 Belarus Chad China Cuba Eritrea Laos Saudi Arabia
Syria Zimbabwe
Ranking: 7 Equatorial Guinea Libya Myanmar (Burma) North Korea Somalia Sudan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
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