Political rights index

40 = highest degree of political rights

Political rights index (score)

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Canada	40	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Uruguay	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Japan	37	37	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
New Zealand	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Denmark	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Finland	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Norway	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Sweden	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Slovenia	38	38	38	39	39	39	39	39	39	38	39
Belgium	40	40	40	40	40	39	39	39	39	39	39
Germany	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39
Ireland	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39
Netherlands	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	39
Portugal	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39
San Marino	40	40	40	40	38	38	38	38	38	38	39
Switzerland	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39
United Kingdom	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	39	39	39	39
Bahamas	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
Chile	39	39	39	38	37	37	37	38	38	38	38
Costa Rica	38	37	37	37	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
Saint Lucia	39	39	39	39	39	38	38	38	37	38	38
Australia	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	38
Marshall Islands	36	36	36	37	37	37	38	38	38	38	38
Taiwan Province of China	36	36	37	37	37	37	37	37	38	38	38
Estonia	39	39	39	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
Lithuania	37	37	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
केप वर्दे	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	38	38	38	38
Andorra	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	39	38	38	38
Cyprus	38	37	37	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
France	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
Luxembourg	40	39	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
Barbados	40	40	40	40	40	38	38	38	38	38	37
Dominica	38	38	38	38	38	37	37	37	37	37	37
Grenada	38	38	38	38	38	37	37	37	37	37	37
Kiribati	36	36	36	36	37	38	37	37	37	37	37
Micronesia (Federated States of)	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Palau	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Tuvalu	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Latvia	33	33	34	35	36	35	35	37	37	37	37
Slovakia	37	37	37	36	36	36	36	36	37	37	37
Austria	38	38	38	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Iceland	40	40	39	40	38	37	37	37	37	37	37
Spain	39	39	39	39	38	38	39	38	37	37	37
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	36	36	36	37	37	36	36	36	36	36	36
Mongolia	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36
Czech Republic	38	37	38	38	38	37	36	36	36	36	36
Italy	35	37	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36
Argentina	31	31	31	31	33	33	34	35	35	35	35
Panama	36	35	35	35	35	35	36	36	35	35	35
Saint Kitts and Nevis	38	37	37	35	36	36	36	36	35	35	35
Croatia	36	36	36	37	37	37	36	36	36	36	35
Romania	32	35	34	34	35	35	34	35	35	35	35
Ghana	37	37	37	37	37	37	36	35	35	35	35
Mauritius	38	38	38	38	37	37	37	37	37	36	35
Sao Tome and Principe	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	35	35	35	35
Greece	35	35	35	35	35	35	36	37	37	37	35
Malta	39	39	39	39	39	36	35	35	35	35	35
Belize	37	36	36	36	36	36	36	35	34	34	34
Jamaica	33	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34
Suriname	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	32	34	34	34
Nauru	38	38	37	35	35	35	34	34	34	34	34
Poland	38	38	38	38	37	36	35	35	34	34	34
Israel	36	36	36	36	36	36	35	33	33	34	34
Seychelles	25	25	25	26	28	28	28	29	34	34	34
Antigua and Barbuda	31	31	31	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
Trinidad and Tobago	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
United States of America	37	37	37	36	36	33	33	33	32	32	33
Timor-Leste	29	29	29	29	29	32	32	32	33	33	33
India	34	34	35	35	35	35	35	34	34	33	33
Republic of Korea	36	35	34	34	32	33	33	33	33	33	33
Vanuatu	32	32	32	31	32	33	33	33	33	33	33
Bulgaria	34	31	33	33	33	33	33	34	33	33	33
South Africa	34	33	33	33	33	32	33	33	33	33	33
Liechtenstein	39	39	39	39	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
Colombia	27	28	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	31
Samoa	32	32	32	31	30	30	30	30	30	32	31
Tonga	29	31	31	31	30	30	30	30	30	30	31
Namibia	30	30	30	30	30	30	29	31	31	31	31
Brazil	33	33	33	33	31	31	30	31	31	31	30
Ecuador	24	24	24	24	24	25	25	27	27	31	30
Guyana	31	31	30	32	32	32	32	31	30	30	30
Indonesia	30	30	30	31	31	30	30	30	30	30	30
Lesotho	31	31	30	28	27	27	27	27	27	27	30
Peru	30	30	30	30	31	31	31	30	29	30	29
Bhutan	22	28	29	29	28	28	29	29	30	29	29
Solomon Islands	22	22	25	25	27	28	30	30	30	30	29
North Macedonia	26	26	23	22	21	21	22	24	27	28	29
Malawi	26	26	27	27	26	26	26	26	29	29	29
Senegal	32	33	33	33	32	31	30	29	29	29	29
Paraguay	27	26	27	27	27	27	28	28	28	28	28
Albania	24	27	27	27	28	28	28	27	27	28	28
Botswana	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
Bolivia	29	29	29	29	29	28	28	25	27	27	27
Dominican Republic	31	30	30	29	27	26	26	26	26	27	27
Mexico	28	28	28	28	28	26	27	27	27	27	27
Republic of Moldova	29	29	28	25	27	26	24	26	26	27	27
Liberia	26	26	26	28	28	27	27	27	27	27	27
Madagascar	7	15	22	24	24	24	24	26	27	27	27
Sierra Leone	30	29	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	27
Monaco	31	31	31	31	27	25	26	26	26	27	27
Nepal	20	23	24	25	24	25	25	25	25	25	26
Montenegro	27	27	27	27	26	25	23	22	24	26	26
El Salvador	35	35	35	33	34	34	32	32	30	26	25
Philippines	26	26	26	27	27	27	26	25	25	25	25
Fiji	7	7	26	27	25	24	24	24	24	23	24
Hungary	36	36	32	32	29	28	27	27	26	26	24
Sri Lanka	16	16	16	23	24	24	24	23	23	23	23
Armenia	13	14	16	16	16	15	20	21	22	23	23
Niger	26	26	26	24	21	20	20	20	20	23	23
Zambia	28	25	26	26	23	22	22	22	20	21	23
Honduras	18	20	20	19	19	20	20	19	19	21	22
Malaysia	20	19	19	18	18	18	21	21	21	20	22
Papua New Guinea	23	24	23	23	26	25	23	23	23	23	22
Georgia	24	25	26	27	27	26	25	24	23	22	22
Ukraine	21	20	25	25	25	26	26	27	26	26	22
Kenya	21	22	22	22	22	19	19	19	19	19	22
Gambia	7	7	7	5	8	20	20	20	20	21	21
Guatemala	24	24	24	23	23	23	22	21	21	21	20
Serbia	30	30	31	30	29	28	24	23	22	21	20
Tunisia	26	27	36	37	36	30	31	32	32	26	20
Nigeria	20	20	18	23	25	25	25	22	21	20	20
Maldives	17	19	20	19	17	14	14	18	19	19	19
Singapore	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Côte d'Ivoire	13	17	17	20	20	19	19	19	16	19	19
Bosnia and Herzegovina	25	24	23	22	21	21	19	19	19	19	18
Benin	32	32	32	33	33	33	32	21	21	17	17
Guinea Bissau	7	9	17	16	16	16	15	17	17	17	17
Iraq	11	12	11	12	12	16	17	17	16	16	16
Comoros	25	25	25	24	24	24	21	18	16	16	16
Turkey	28	28	26	24	18	16	15	16	16	16	16
Bangladesh	25	24	21	21	20	19	17	15	15	15	15
Pakistan	20	21	20	20	21	19	17	16	15	15	15
Togo	16	18	18	18	18	18	15	16	15	15	15
Kuwait	17	16	14	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14
Lebanon	17	16	14	13	14	11	14	14	13	13	14
Mauritania	11	11	9	9	9	9	11	13	14	14	14
Mozambique	23	23	23	22	20	20	19	14	14	14	14
Morocco	16	15	15	15	15	14	14	13	13	13	13
United Republic of Tanzania	28	29	28	27	25	22	20	17	12	12	12
Haiti	19	18	17	17	15	17	17	16	15	11	11
Jordan	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	11	11	11
Uganda	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Zimbabwe	11	12	12	12	12	10	12	12	11	11	11
हांगकांग	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	16	15	10	10
Algeria	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10
Angola	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	11	10	10	10
Ethiopia	7	7	7	4	4	4	7	10	9	12	10
Mali	5	17	17	17	17	17	18	17	9	8	8
Rwanda	8	9	9	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8
Brunei Darussalam	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7
Qatar	10	10	10	9	9	7	7	7	7	7	7
Guinea	15	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	14	10	7
Thailand	22	22	8	7	7	6	5	6	5	5	6
Egypt	16	9	8	9	9	10	8	7	6	6	6
Oman	9	9	9	8	8	6	6	6	6	6	6
Cameroon	7	8	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	6	6
Nicaragua	17	19	19	19	14	12	10	10	10	5	5
Cambodia	9	10	11	11	11	10	6	5	5	5	5
Kazakhstan	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Russian Federation	7	7	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
United Arab Emirates	8	8	8	7	7	5	5	5	5	5	5
Djibouti	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	5	5	5	5
Viet Nam	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Kyrgyzstan	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	4	4	4
Iran	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	4	4
Burundi	12	12	11	5	5	4	3	3	4	4	4
Democratic Republic of the Congo	9	9	9	9	4	4	3	4	5	4	4
Burkina Faso	17	17	9	21	23	23	23	23	23	23	3
Central African Republic	16	0	0	1	4	4	4	4	3	3	3
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Azerbaijan	6	6	6	5	4	3	2	2	2	2	2
Belarus	4	4	4	4	5	6	5	5	2	2	2
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	2
Bahrain	6	6	5	4	2	2	2	1	2	2	2
Congo	7	7	7	6	5	2	2	2	2	2	2
Gabon	9	9	9	9	8	4	4	3	3	3	2
Somalia	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	2
Cuba	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	15	14	13	15	11	8	3	2	1	1	1
Afghanistan	11	11	11	10	10	12	13	13	13	1	1
Libya	22	21	8	6	3	1	1	1	1	1	1
Saudi Arabia	3	3	3	3	3	0	1	1	1	1	1
Yemen	9	10	9	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1
Chad	5	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	1	1
Eritrea	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
इस्वातिनी	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Myanmar	9	9	9	11	14	13	13	14	13	0	0
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tajikistan	8	8	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Equatorial Guinea	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sudan	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	2	2	0	0
China	2	2	2	1	1	0	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2
Syrian Arab Republic	-1	-2	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3
South Sudan	11	8	2	2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-3	-3
Puerto Rico	37	37	37	37

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