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