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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  Netherlands:
#2  Austria:
#3  Sweden:
#4  Canada:
#5  New Zealand:
#6  Denmark:
#7  United States:
#8  Ireland:
#9  Norway:
#10  Finland:
#11  Portugal:
#12  Iceland:
#13  Switzerland:
#14  Uruguay:
#15  Australia:
#16  Slovenia:5.5 
#17  Latvia:5.5 
#18  United Kingdom:5.5 
#19  Italy:5.5 
#20  Costa Rica:5.5 
#21  Slovakia:5.5 
#22  Estonia:5.5 
#23  Hungary:5.5 
#24  Czech Republic:5.5 
#25  Japan:5.5 
#26  France:5.5 
#27  Lithuania:5.5 
#28  Panama:5.5 
#29  Poland:5.5 
#30  Argentina:5.5 
#31  South Africa:5.5 
#32  Belgium:5.5 
#33  Spain:5.5 
#34  Germany:5.5 
#35  Israel:
#36  Botswana:
#37  Bolivia:
#38  Korea, South:
#39  Trinidad and Tobago:
#40  Greece:
#41  Chile:
#42  Jamaica:
#43  Dominica:
#44  Romania:
#45  Benin:
#46  Mexico:4.5 
#47  El Salvador:4.5 
#48  Mongolia:4.5 
#49  Ghana:4.5 
#50  India:4.5 
#51  Croatia:4.5 
#52  Mali:4.5 
#53  Papua New Guinea:4.5 
#54  Thailand:4.5 
#55  Philippines:4.5 
#56  Namibia:4.5 
#57  Bulgaria:4.5 
#58  Nicaragua:
#59  Moldova:
#60  Ecuador:
#61  Madagascar:
#62  Brazil:
#63  Malawi:
#64  Honduras:
#65  Mozambique:3.5 
#66  Bangladesh:3.5 
#67  Sri Lanka:3.5 
#68  Paraguay:3.5 
#69  Central African Republic:3.5 
#70  Senegal:3.5 
#71  Guatemala:3.5 
#72  Nepal:3.5 
#73  Indonesia:3.5 
#74  Peru:3.5 
#75  Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:3.5 
#76  Burkina Faso:
#77  Colombia:
#78  Tanzania:
#79  Jordan:
#80  Nigeria:
#81  Niger:
#82  Ukraine:
#83  Venezuela:
#84  Armenia:
#85  Sierra Leone:2.5 
#86  Albania:2.5 
#87  Morocco:2.5 
#88  Zambia:2.5 
#89  Gabon:2.5 
#90  Guinea-Bissau:2.5 
#91  Kuwait:2.5 
#92  Turkey:2.5 
#93  Bosnia and Herzegovina:2.5 
#94  Togo:
#95  Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
#96  Ethiopia:
#97  Russia:
#98  Malaysia:
#99  Pakistan:1.5 
#100  Lebanon:1.5 
#101  Azerbaijan:1.5 
#102  Algeria:1.5 
#103  Chad:1.5 
#104  Mauritania:1.5 
#105  Egypt:1.5 
#106  Tunisia:1.5 
#107  Guinea:1.5 
#108  Zimbabwe:1.5 
#109  Haiti:1.5 
#110  Liberia:1.5 
#111  Cote d'Ivoire:1.5 
#112  Oman:1.5 
#113  Kenya:1.5 
#114  United Arab Emirates:1.5 
#115  Kyrgyzstan:1.5 
#116  Uganda:1.5 
#117  Kazakhstan:1.5 
#118  Gambia, The:
#119  Burundi:
#120  Belarus:
#121  Cambodia:
#122  Iran:
#123  Tajikistan:
#124  Laos:0.5 
#125  China:0.5 
#126  Vietnam:0.5 
#127  Cameroon:0.5 
#128  Rwanda:0.5 
#129  Bhutan:0.5 
#130  Uzbekistan:0.5 
#131  Somalia:0.5 
#132  Syria:
#133  Cuba:
#134  Saudi Arabia:
#135  Iraq:
#136  Burma:
#137  Korea, North:
#138  Sudan:
#139  Libya:
#140  Turkmenistan:
Weighted average: 3.3  


DEFINITION: Civil and political liberties
Units: Index Ranging from 7 (High Levels of Liberties) to 1 (Low
Units: This is the average of two indicators - civil liberties and political liberties.

SOURCE: Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2000-2001, New York: Freedom House, 2001

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Peter Carter (England)
12th June 2007
What gives Freedom House the right to classify according to political and civil rights. Surely the result will end up with a heavy bias towards the US definitions of political and civil rights...
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