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Rank   Countries  Amount 
= 1     Denmark: 6 
= 1     New Zealand: 6 
= 1     Sweden: 6 
= 1     Norway: 6 
= 1     Austria: 6 
= 1     Netherlands: 6 
= 1     United States: 6 
= 1     Iceland: 6 
= 1     Canada: 6 
= 1     Finland: 6 
= 1     Australia: 6 
= 1     Ireland: 6 
= 1     Switzerland: 6 
= 1     Uruguay: 6 
= 1     Portugal: 6 
= 16     Slovenia: 5.5 
= 16     France: 5.5 
= 16     United Kingdom: 5.5 
= 16     Hungary: 5.5 
= 16     Poland: 5.5 
= 16     Estonia: 5.5 
= 16     Slovakia: 5.5 
= 16     Italy: 5.5 
= 16     Lithuania: 5.5 
= 16     Germany: 5.5 
= 16     Latvia: 5.5 
= 16     Czech Republic: 5.5 
= 16     Belgium: 5.5 
= 16     Costa Rica: 5.5 
= 16     South Africa: 5.5 
= 16     Argentina: 5.5 
= 16     Panama: 5.5 
= 16     Spain: 5.5 
= 16     Japan: 5.5 
= 35     Chile: 5 
= 35     Romania: 5 
= 35     Korea, South: 5 
= 35     Bolivia: 5 
= 35     Trinidad and Tobago: 5 
= 35     Dominica: 5 
= 35     Israel: 5 
= 35     Benin: 5 
= 35     Greece: 5 
= 35     Botswana: 5 
= 35     Jamaica: 5 
= 46     Ghana: 4.5 
= 46     Papua New Guinea: 4.5 
= 46     India: 4.5 
= 46     Mexico: 4.5 
= 46     Mongolia: 4.5 
= 46     Mali: 4.5 
= 46     Croatia: 4.5 
= 46     El Salvador: 4.5 
= 46     Thailand: 4.5 
= 46     Bulgaria: 4.5 
= 46     Namibia: 4.5 
= 46     Philippines: 4.5 
= 58     Brazil: 4 
= 58     Honduras: 4 
= 58     Malawi: 4 
= 58     Madagascar: 4 
= 58     Nicaragua: 4 
= 58     Ecuador: 4 
= 58     Moldova: 4 
= 65     Indonesia: 3.5 
= 65     Senegal: 3.5 
= 65     Peru: 3.5 
= 65     Central African Republic: 3.5 
= 65     Paraguay: 3.5 
= 65     Bangladesh: 3.5 
= 65     Nepal: 3.5 
= 65     Guatemala: 3.5 
= 65     Mozambique: 3.5 
= 65     Sri Lanka: 3.5 
= 65     Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 3.5 
= 76     Burkina Faso: 3 
= 76     Niger: 3 
= 76     Tanzania: 3 
= 76     Jordan: 3 
= 76     Armenia: 3 
= 76     Colombia: 3 
= 76     Ukraine: 3 
= 76     Venezuela: 3 
= 76     Nigeria: 3 
= 85     Sierra Leone: 2.5 
= 85     Guinea-Bissau: 2.5 
= 85     Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2.5 
= 85     Zambia: 2.5 
= 85     Kuwait: 2.5 
= 85     Albania: 2.5 
= 85     Gabon: 2.5 
= 85     Turkey: 2.5 
= 85     Morocco: 2.5 
= 94     Togo: 2 
= 94     Russia: 2 
= 94     Malaysia: 2 
= 94     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 2 
= 94     Ethiopia: 2 
= 99     Algeria: 1.5 
= 99     Guinea: 1.5 
= 99     Oman: 1.5 
= 99     Pakistan: 1.5 
= 99     Mauritania: 1.5 
= 99     Chad: 1.5 
= 99     Liberia: 1.5 
= 99     Tunisia: 1.5 
= 99     Lebanon: 1.5 
= 99     Zimbabwe: 1.5 
= 99     Kazakhstan: 1.5 
= 99     Egypt: 1.5 
= 99     Kyrgyzstan: 1.5 
= 99     Azerbaijan: 1.5 
= 99     Kenya: 1.5 
= 99     United Arab Emirates: 1.5 
= 99     Cote d'Ivoire: 1.5 
= 99     Uganda: 1.5 
= 99     Haiti: 1.5 
= 118     Burundi: 1 
= 118     Gambia, The: 1 
= 118     Iran: 1 
= 118     Cambodia: 1 
= 118     Belarus: 1 
= 118     Tajikistan: 1 
= 124     China: 0.5 
= 124     Laos: 0.5 
= 124     Vietnam: 0.5 
= 124     Cameroon: 0.5 
= 124     Bhutan: 0.5 
= 124     Rwanda: 0.5 
= 124     Uzbekistan: 0.5 
= 124     Somalia: 0.5 
= 132     Syria: 0 
= 132     Libya: 0 
= 132     Burma: 0 
= 132     Korea, North: 0 
= 132     Saudi Arabia: 0 
= 132     Iraq: 0 
= 132     Sudan: 0 
= 132     Cuba: 0 
= 132     Turkmenistan: 0 
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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"Civil and political liberties by country", Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2000-2001, New York: Freedom House, 2001. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/red/graph/dem_civ_and_pol_lib-democracy-civil-and-political-liberties&b_map=1

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COMMENTARY     

Winston Jen
10th May 2011 		Australia shouldn't be rated 6. We have legalised torture (laws against voluntary euthanasia).
Shaun M.
15th December 2010 		There is numerous ways to define democracy. To get a more informed answer I suggest reading: "What Democracy Is...And Is Not" by Philippe Schmitter and Terry Karl. It is a good starting point to form ones own opinion.
R Potter
16th September 2010 		It appears that ishta mohammad is another ill-informed, faith-based, illiterate who has been brainwashed into thinking the USA is a dictatorship.

Moreover, other sources confirm the findings of this list, namely Freedom House which uses a different methodology but surprisingly the outcomes are very similar.
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Mark McKenna
27th November 2005 		I notice that this information comes from only a single source, which, at first glance, contains a variety of nonfactual (i.e. opinion-oriented) statements. This is not a sufficiently representative selection of sources, and calls the outcome into question.

I also fail to understand how the rating system functions; an abstract value between 0 and 7 without even an example key to indicate what each level means.

Finally, I don't believe you can adequately rate a state's civil and/or political liberties in a single dimension, because there are too many conflicting and semi-independent axes; such as the selection of laws at work in the state, the ways in which they are enforced, de-facto qualities (such as social pressures which are not represented legally, the primary example of which would be racism), economic status and spread, and (most importantly) paradigmatic differences in worldview of the people in the nation.

I think it's irresponsible to put forth statistics which are not adequately sourced, as they appear to be authoratative without deeper analysis.
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
27th 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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