Civil and political liberties by country. Definition, graph and map.

Rank	Countries	Amount
= 1	Sweden:	6
= 1	Denmark:	6
= 1	Norway:	6
= 1	Ireland:	6
= 1	Netherlands:	6
= 1	Finland:	6
= 1	Portugal:	6
= 1	Switzerland:	6
= 1	Austria:	6
= 10	Slovenia:	5.5
= 10	Germany:	5.5
= 10	United Kingdom:	5.5
= 10	Slovakia:	5.5
= 10	Latvia:	5.5
= 10	Hungary:	5.5
= 10	Czech Republic:	5.5
= 10	France:	5.5
= 10	Lithuania:	5.5
= 10	Belgium:	5.5
= 10	Poland:	5.5
= 10	Estonia:	5.5
= 10	Spain:	5.5
= 10	Italy:	5.5
= 24	Greece:	5
= 24	Romania:	5
= 26	Bulgaria:	4.5
= 26	Croatia:	4.5
# 28	Moldova:	4
# 29	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:	3.5
= 30	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	2.5
= 30	Albania:	2.5
# 32	Belarus:	1
	Weighted average:	5.1

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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COMMENTARY

Ishta Mohammed
14th June 2005

Is the US really a democracy? And all this time I thought it was a Dictatorship!

Suchita Vemuri
Staff Writer
28th January 2005

The most successful democracies have high rates of literacy and education, employment in industry and market commerce, free flow of information and a free media, and have strong public institutions. India claims to be the world’s largest democracy, but the low levels of education and poor accountability of public institutions makes it a flawed democracy.

Democracy comes with capitalist development, not vice versa. Democracy cannot be imposed, while a capitalist economic system can. This has been abundantly shown through history and the current experience of globalization (as in China) and invasions (as in Afghanistan). China has forged rapidly ahead in opening up its economy to capitalist enterprise but its political systems remain totalitarian, while all attempts to impose democracy in Afghanistan by foreign intervention have patently failed.

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