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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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