Civil liberties index

60 = highest degree of civil liberties

Civil liberties index (score)

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Finland	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Norway	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Sweden	60	59	59	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
New Zealand	58	58	58	58	58	58	58	57	59	59	59
Luxembourg	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	59	59	59
Canada	58	59	59	59	59	59	59	58	58	58	58
Ireland	58	58	58	57	57	57	58	58	58	58	58
Netherlands	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	59	58	58	58
San Marino	60	60	60	60	59	59	57	57	55	55	58
Barbados	59	59	59	58	58	58	58	57	57	57	57
Australia	58	58	58	58	58	58	58	57	57	56	57
Belgium	57	57	57	56	55	56	57	57	57	57	57
Denmark	58	58	58	58	57	57	57	57	57	57	57
Iceland	60	60	60	60	59	58	57	57	57	57	57
Liechtenstein	59	59	59	59	58	57	57	57	57	57	57
Monaco	56	57	57	57	57	57	56	57	57	57	57
Portugal	58	58	58	58	58	58	57	57	57	56	57
Switzerland	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57
Chile	57	56	56	57	57	57	57	52	55	56	56
Dominica	57	57	57	57	57	56	56	56	56	56	56
Uruguay	58	58	58	58	58	58	58	58	58	57	56
Japan	51	53	55	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Taiwan Province of China	52	52	51	52	54	56	56	56	56	56	56
Tuvalu	57	57	57	57	57	57	56	56	56	56	56
Czech Republic	57	57	57	57	56	56	55	55	55	55	56
Estonia	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Slovenia	53	53	53	53	53	54	55	55	56	52	56
Austria	58	58	58	58	58	57	56	56	56	56	56
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	53	53	54	54	54	54	55	55	55	55	55
Marshall Islands	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55
Micronesia (Federated States of)	56	56	56	56	56	56	55	55	55	55	55
Palau	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55	55
Andorra	57	57	57	57	56	57	55	55	55	55	55
Germany	57	57	57	56	56	55	55	55	55	55	55
Saint Kitts and Nevis	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	54	54	54
Saint Lucia	54	53	53	53	53	53	54	54	54	54	54
Kiribati	55	55	55	55	55	55	56	56	56	56	54
केप वर्दे	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	54	54	54	54
Cyprus	55	55	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	55	54
Italy	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	54	54	54
Malta	58	58	58	57	57	56	56	55	55	54	54
United Kingdom	57	57	57	55	55	54	54	55	54	54	54
Bahamas	58	58	58	54	53	53	53	53	53	53	53
Belize	51	51	51	51	51	50	50	51	53	53	53
Costa Rica	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53
Slovakia	55	54	53	53	53	53	52	52	53	53	53
Spain	57	57	57	56	56	56	55	54	53	53	53
Antigua and Barbuda	49	49	49	49	50	50	51	52	52	52	52
Grenada	51	51	51	51	51	51	52	52	52	52	52
Samoa	49	49	49	49	50	50	51	51	51	51	52
Latvia	51	51	51	51	51	52	52	52	52	51	51
Lithuania	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	53	52	51	51
France	57	57	57	53	52	52	52	52	52	51	51
Greece	48	48	48	48	49	50	51	51	50	50	51
Argentina	49	49	49	48	49	50	50	50	49	49	50
United States of America	56	55	55	54	53	53	53	53	51	51	50
Republic of Korea	50	50	50	49	50	51	50	50	50	50	50
Tonga	44	44	44	44	44	45	49	49	49	49	50
Mauritius	52	52	52	52	52	52	52	52	50	50	50
Trinidad and Tobago	48	48	48	48	48	48	49	49	49	49	49
Vanuatu	47	47	47	47	48	48	49	49	49	49	49
Croatia	50	50	50	50	50	49	49	49	49	49	49
Sao Tome and Principe	47	47	47	47	47	48	49	49	49	49	49
Panama	46	47	47	48	48	48	48	48	48	48	48
Mongolia	50	50	50	50	49	49	49	48	48	48	48
Romania	49	49	49	49	49	49	47	48	48	48	48
Solomon Islands	43	43	43	43	44	44	49	49	49	49	47
Poland	55	55	55	55	52	49	49	49	48	47	47
Jamaica	40	40	40	41	41	43	44	44	46	46	46
Bulgaria	47	47	46	47	47	47	47	46	45	46	46
Namibia	46	46	46	47	47	47	46	46	46	46	46
South Africa	47	48	48	46	45	46	46	46	46	46	46
Suriname	44	44	44	43	43	44	43	43	45	45	45
Ghana	47	47	47	46	46	46	47	47	47	45	45
Seychelles	42	42	42	42	43	43	43	43	43	45	45
Botswana	46	46	45	45	44	44	44	44	44	44	44
Guyana	40	41	41	42	42	42	43	43	43	43	43
Nauru	55	54	51	49	46	46	44	43	43	43	43
Israel	45	45	44	44	44	43	43	43	43	42	43
Brazil	48	48	48	48	48	47	45	44	43	42	42
Hungary	52	52	50	47	47	44	43	43	43	43	42
Benin	50	48	49	49	49	49	47	45	44	42	42
Dominican Republic	44	43	43	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41
Peru	41	41	41	41	41	42	42	42	42	42	41
Montenegro	45	45	44	43	43	42	42	40	39	41	41
Ecuador	36	36	35	35	33	35	38	38	40	40	40
Serbia	48	48	49	48	47	45	43	43	42	41	40
Bolivia	40	38	39	39	39	39	39	38	39	39	39
Colombia	34	34	34	34	35	36	37	37	36	35	39
Timor-Leste	34	34	36	36	36	37	38	39	39	39	39
Papua New Guinea	36	36	36	36	38	38	41	39	39	39	39
Albania	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	39	39
North Macedonia	38	38	37	35	36	37	37	39	39	39	39
Senegal	43	46	45	45	46	44	42	42	42	39	39
Paraguay	35	35	38	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Malawi	34	34	34	37	37	37	38	36	37	37	37
Georgia	36	38	38	37	37	38	38	37	37	36	36
Tunisia	33	36	43	42	42	40	38	38	39	38	36
Lesotho	41	41	41	39	37	37	36	36	36	36	36
Sierra Leone	40	38	37	37	38	38	37	37	37	37	36
Fiji	30	30	34	35	34	35	37	36	36	35	35
Republic of Moldova	36	35	35	35	35	35	34	34	35	35	35
Bosnia and Herzegovina	37	37	37	35	34	34	34	34	34	34	34
Madagascar	28	28	30	32	32	32	32	35	33	34	34
Mexico	37	37	36	37	37	36	36	35	34	33	33
India	42	43	43	42	42	42	40	37	33	33	33
Philippines	37	37	37	38	36	35	35	34	31	30	33
Liberia	34	33	30	33	34	35	35	33	33	33	33
Bhutan	24	27	27	27	27	27	30	30	31	32	32
हांगकांग	51	51	49	47	45	44	44	39	37	33	32
Nepal	27	27	27	26	28	30	29	31	31	32	32
El Salvador	42	42	40	36	36	36	35	34	33	33	31
Malaysia	28	28	27	27	26	27	31	31	30	30	31
Sri Lanka	27	26	25	32	32	31	32	33	33	32	31
Armenia	29	29	30	30	29	30	31	32	33	32	31
Mozambique	36	35	35	34	33	32	32	31	29	29	31
Zambia	34	34	34	34	33	33	32	32	32	30	31
Côte d'Ivoire	21	28	29	31	32	32	32	32	28	30	30
Kenya	34	31	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	30
Guatemala	33	32	31	31	31	33	31	31	31	30	29
Lebanon	32	32	30	30	30	32	31	30	30	29	29
Indonesia	35	34	34	34	34	34	32	31	29	29	28
Singapore	33	32	32	32	32	33	32	31	29	28	28
Ukraine	36	35	37	36	36	36	34	35	34	35	28
Niger	30	30	30	28	28	29	29	28	28	28	28
Burkina Faso	36	36	36	38	40	37	37	33	31	30	27
Gambia	16	14	13	13	12	21	25	26	26	26	27
Togo	27	29	29	30	30	29	28	28	28	27	27
Honduras	33	31	29	26	27	26	26	26	25	26	26
Comoros	30	30	30	31	31	31	29	26	26	26	26
Guinea Bissau	23	23	23	23	24	25	27	29	27	26	26
Bangladesh	31	29	29	28	27	26	24	24	24	24	25
Thailand	31	32	25	25	25	25	25	26	25	24	24
Morocco	27	27	27	26	26	25	25	24	24	24	24
United Republic of Tanzania	38	35	35	33	33	30	25	23	22	22	24
Uganda	28	26	25	25	24	26	25	23	23	23	24
Kyrgyzstan	25	25	24	24	24	25	26	27	24	23	23
Kuwait	24	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23	23
Guinea	24	24	24	23	24	24	26	25	24	24	23
Nigeria	26	26	25	25	25	25	25	25	24	23	23
Maldives	29	29	28	24	23	21	21	22	21	21	22
Pakistan	22	21	22	21	22	24	22	22	22	22	22
Algeria	24	23	23	24	24	25	24	24	22	22	22
Jordan	24	24	25	25	25	25	25	25	23	22	22
Mauritania	23	23	22	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	22
Brunei Darussalam	23	23	23	22	22	22	22	21	21	21	21
Mali	19	27	27	28	28	27	26	24	24	24	21
Haiti	24	25	24	24	24	24	24	22	22	22	20
Cambodia	20	20	20	21	20	20	20	20	19	19	19
Djibouti	20	20	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Kazakhstan	20	19	18	18	17	17	17	18	18	18	18
Oman	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18
Qatar	18	18	18	18	17	17	18	18	18	18	18
Angola	19	18	18	14	14	16	20	21	21	20	18
Gabon	25	25	25	25	24	19	19	19	19	18	18
Zimbabwe	14	16	16	20	20	20	19	17	17	17	17
इस्वातिनी	20	19	17	17	17	15	15	18	18	16	16
Turkey	33	32	29	29	20	16	16	16	16	16	16
Viet Nam	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	15
Congo	22	23	23	22	22	19	19	18	18	15	15
Democratic Republic of the Congo	11	11	16	16	15	13	12	14	15	15	15
Rwanda	16	17	16	16	16	15	14	14	13	14	15
Nicaragua	34	35	35	35	33	32	22	21	20	18	14
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	24	24	22	20	19	18	16	14	13	13	14
Chad	16	16	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Iraq	13	13	13	15	15	15	15	14	13	13	13
United Arab Emirates	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	13
Egypt	25	22	18	18	17	16	14	14	12	12	12
Cuba	10	11	13	14	14	13	13	13	12	11	11
China	15	15	15	15	14	14	12	11	11	11	11
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11
Russian Federation	20	19	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	11
Ethiopia	11	11	11	11	8	8	12	14	13	11	11
Uzbekistan	4	4	4	3	3	6	8	8	9	9	10
Bahrain	12	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Burundi	22	22	21	14	14	14	11	10	10	10	10
Sudan	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	10	15	10	10
Myanmar	17	17	16	17	18	18	17	16	15	9	9
Libya	21	20	15	14	10	8	8	8	8	8	9
Cameroon	16	16	16	15	15	13	12	11	9	9	9
Iran	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	10	8
Yemen	16	16	16	13	12	12	10	10	10	8	8
Afghanistan	16	15	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	9	7
Azerbaijan	17	16	14	11	10	9	9	8	8	7	7
Tajikistan	16	16	15	14	10	10	9	9	8	8	7
Saudi Arabia	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	7
Belarus	10	10	10	13	15	15	14	14	9	6	6
Somalia	2	2	2	2	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Equatorial Guinea	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	5	5	5
Syrian Arab Republic	6	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	4
Central African Republic	19	6	6	6	6	5	5	6	6	4	4
South Sudan	20	16	13	12	6	4	4	4	4	4	4
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Turkmenistan	6	6	5	4	4	4	2	2	2	2	2
Eritrea	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2
Puerto Rico	52	52	52	53

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