# List of freedom indices

This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries using various measures of freedom, including civil liberties, political rights and economic rights. Some of the indices measure only some aspects of freedom, such as democracy or corruption.

## Prominent indices

The indices and their origins:
* Canada
** The Economic Freedom of the World is a report published by Canada-based Fraser Institute in conjunction with the Economic Freedom Network, a group of independent research and educational institutes in 90 nations and territories worldwide. It is a numeric index, and its results are not currently included in the table below.
* Canada, United States, Germany
** The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom. The index presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom. The index covers the following areas: Rule of Law, Security and Safety, Movement, Religion, Association, Assembly, Civil Society, Expression, Relationships, Size of Government, Legal System and Property Rights, Access to Sound Money, Freedom to Trade Internationally, and Regulation of Credit, Labor, and Business. The Human Freedom Index was created in 2015, covering 152 countries for years 2008–2012. The Human Freedom Index 2016 was published in November 2016, covering 159 countries for years 2008–2015. The report is co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Co-authors of the report are Ian Vásquez and Tanja Porčnik.
** The Index of Freedom in the World was a predecessor to the Human Freedom Index. It measured classical civil liberties and was published in 2013 by Canada's Fraser Institute, Germany's Liberales Institute, and the U.S. Cato Institute. It is not currently included in the table below.
* France
** World Press Freedom Index, is published each year since 2002 (except that 2011 was combined with 2012) by France-based Reporters Without Borders. Countries are assessed as having a good situation, a satisfactory situation, noticeable problems, a difficult situation, or a very serious situation.
* Spain
** The World Index of Moral Freedom was first published on 2 April 2016, by the Foundation for the Advancement of Liberty, based in Madrid, Spain. This index ranks 160 countries by five categories of indicators: religious freedom, bioethical freedom, drugs freedom, sexuality freedom and family and gender freedom. The index aims at establishing the degree of individual freedom or state control on decisions pertaining to the great moral debates of our time.
* Sweden
** MaxRange, developed by Max Rånge, and maintained by Mikael Sandberg and Max Rånge, political scientists at Halmstad University, Sweden, is a data set defining a country's level of democracy and institutional structure (regime-type) on a 1000-point graded scale. Values are sorted based on level of democracy and political accountability. MaxRange defines the value corresponding to all states every month from 1789 to the present.
** V-Dem Democracy indices by V-Dem Institute at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is an approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles. With six principal investigators (PIs), seventeen project managers (PMs) with special responsibility for issue areas, more than thirty regional managers (RMs), 170 country coordinators (CCs), research assistants, and 3,000 country experts (CEs), the V-Dem project is one of the largest social science data collection projects focusing on research.
** International IDEAs "Global State of Democracy Report" provides democratic performance of 168 to 170 countries. "The GSoD Indices are based on 116 individual indicators devised by various scholars and organizations using different types of sources: expert surveys, standards-based coding by research groups and analysts, observational data and composite measures. The Varieties of Democracy project is the largest contributor of indicators to the Global State of Democracies Indices.
* Switzerland
** Global Corruption Index, rates and ranks countries by a metric that measures the risk of corruption in the country by using 43 variables. It covers 196 countries and territories and is published by the Swiss-based company, Global Risk Profile.
* United Kingdom
** The Economist Democracy Index, published by the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, is an assessment of countries' democracy. Countries are rated as full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, or authoritarian regimes. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture.
* United States
** The CIRI Human Rights Data Project measures a range of human, civil, women's, and workers' rights. It was created in 1994 and is now hosted by the University of Connecticut. In its 2011 report, the U.S. was ranked 38th in overall human rights.
** Freedom in the World, published each year since 1972 by the U.S.-based Freedom House, ranks countries by political rights and civil liberties that are derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Countries are assessed as free, partly free, or unfree.
** Freedom of the Press is a report published each year since 1980 by Freedom House.
** The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual report published by The Wall Street Journal and the U.S.-based Heritage Foundation. Countries are assessed as free, mostly free, moderately free, mostly unfree, and repressed.
** The U.S.-based Polity data series is a widely used data series in political science research. It contains coded annual information on regime authority characteristics and transitions for all independent states with total populations greater than 500,000 and covers the years 1800–2018. Polity's conclusions about a state's level of democracy are based on an evaluation of that state's elections for competitiveness, openness, and level of participation. Data from this series is not currently included in the table below. The Polity work is sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force (PITF) which is funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; however, the views expressed in the reports are the authors' alone and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government.

## Annual assessments

Here is a table of the assessments by four indices, for most countries of the world. For exact rankings rather than assessments, refer to the individual index articles.
* Country ratings from 2021 Freedom in the World by Freedom House
* 2021 Index of Economic Freedom by The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal
* The Economist Democracy Index in 2024 by the Economist Intelligence Unit
* World Press Freedom Index in 2024, according to Reporters Without Borders
| Index | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale | Scale |
| Freedom in the World | 1 free | 1 free | 1 free | 1 free | 1 free | 3 partly free | 3 partly free | 3 partly free | 3 partly free | 3 partly free | 5 not free | 5 not free | 5 not free | 5 not free | 5 not free |
| Index of Economic Freedom | 1 free | 1 free | 1 free | 2 mostly free | 2 mostly free | 2 mostly free | 3 moderately free | 3 moderately free | 3 moderately free | 4 mostly unfree | 4 mostly unfree | 4 mostly unfree | 5 repressed | 5 repressed | 5 repressed |
| World Press Freedom Index | 1 good | 1 good | 1 good | 2 satisfactory | 2 satisfactory | 2 satisfactory | 3 problematic | 3 problematic | 3 problematic | 4 difficult | 4 difficult | 4 difficult | 5 very serious | 5 very serious | 5 very serious |
| The Economist Democracy Index | 1 full democracy | 2 flawed democracy | 3 hybrid regime | 5 authoritarian |

## List of scores by country

| Country | Freedom in the World 2024 | Score change since 2023 | Index of Economic Freedom 2024 | Score | Press Freedom Index 2023 | Score | Democracy Index 2024 | Score |
| Finland | 1 100 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 76.3 | 1 good | 87.94 | 1 full democracy | 9.30 |
| New Zealand | 1 99 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 77.8 | 2 satisfactory | 84.23 | 1 full democracy | 9.61 |
| Sweden | 1 99 | -1 | 2 mostly free | 77.5 | 1 good | 88.15 | 1 full democracy | 9.39 |
| Norway | 1 98 | -2 | 2 mostly free | 77.5 | 1 good | 95.18 | 1 full democracy | 9.81 |
| Canada | 1 97 | -1 | 2 mostly free | 72.4 | 2 satisfactory | 83.53 | 1 full democracy | 8.69 |
| Denmark | 1 97 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 77.8 | 1 good | 89.48 | 1 full democracy | 9.28 |
| Ireland | 1 97 | 0 | 1 free | 82.6 | 1 good | 89.91 | 1 full democracy | 9.19 |
| Luxembourg | 1 97 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 79.2 | 2 satisfactory | 81.98 | 1 full democracy | 8.81 |
| Netherlands | 1 97 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 77.3 | 1 good | 87 | 1 full democracy | 9.00 |
| San Marino | 1 97 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Belgium | 1 96 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 65.6 | 2 satisfactory | 76.47 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.64 |
| Japan | 1 96 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 67.5 | 3 problematic | 63.95 | 1 full democracy | 8.40 |
| Portugal | 1 96 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.7 | 2 satisfactory | 84.6 | 1 full democracy | 8.08 |
| Slovenia | 1 96 | +1 | 3 moderately free | 65.9 | 2 satisfactory | 70.59 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.75 |
| Switzerland | 1 96 | 0 | 1 free | 83.0 | 2 satisfactory | 84.4 | 1 full democracy | 9.14 |
| Uruguay | 1 96 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 69.8 | 2 satisfactory | 70.33 | 1 full democracy | 8.66 |
| Australia | 1 95 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 76.2 | 2 satisfactory | 78.24 | 1 full democracy | 8.66 |
| Estonia | 1 95 | +1 | 2 mostly free | 77.8 | 1 good | 85.31 | 1 full democracy | 8.13 |
| Barbados | 1 94 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 66.8 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Chile | 1 94 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 71.4 | 3 problematic | 60.09 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.98 |
| Czechia | 1 94 | +2 | 2 mostly free | 70.2 | 2 satisfactory | 83.58 | 1 full democracy | 8.08 |
| Iceland | 1 94 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 70.5 | 2 satisfactory | 83.19 | 1 full democracy | 9.45 |
| Andorra | 1 93 | 0 | n/a | — | 2 satisfactory | 75.05 | n/a | — |
| Austria | 1 93 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.4 | 2 satisfactory | 77.3 | 1 full democracy | 8.28 |
| Dominica | 1 93 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 54.0 | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| Germany | 1 93 | -1 | 2 mostly free | 72.1 | 2 satisfactory | 81.91 | 1 full democracy | 8.80 |
| Marshall Islands | 1 93 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Tuvalu | 1 93 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Cabo Verde | 1 92 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 65.8 | 2 satisfactory | 75.72 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.65 |
| Cyprus | 1 92 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 72.2 | 3 problematic | 68.62 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.38 |
| Micronesia | 1 92 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 61.0 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Palau | 1 92 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| St. Lucia | 1 92 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.2 | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| Costa Rica | 1 91 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 67.7 | 2 satisfactory | 80.2 | 1 full democracy | 8.29 |
| The Bahamas | 1 91 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.5 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| United Kingdom | 1 91 | -2 | 3 moderately free | 68.6 | 2 satisfactory | 78.51 | 1 full democracy | 8.28 |
| Italy | 1 90 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.1 | 2 satisfactory | 72.05 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.69 |
| Kiribati | 1 90 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.3 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Liechtenstein | 1 90 | 0 | n/a | — | 2 satisfactory | 84.47 | n/a | — |
| Slovakia | 1 90 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.1 | 2 satisfactory | 83.22 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.07 |
| Spain | 1 90 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 63.3 | 2 satisfactory | 75.37 | 1full democracy | 8.07 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 90 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.8 | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| France | 1 89 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.5 | 2 satisfactory | 78.72 | 1full democracy | 8.07 |
| Grenada | 1 89 | 0 | n/a | — | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| Lithuania | 1 89 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 72.9 | 1 good | 86.79 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.31 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 1 89 | 0 | n/a | — | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| Latvia | 1 88 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 71.5 | 2 satisfactory | 83.27 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.38 |
| Belize | 1 87 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 61.2 | 2 satisfactory | 70.49 | n/a | — |
| Malta | 1 87 | -2 | 3 moderately free | 64.5 | 3 problematic | 59.76 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.93 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1 85 | 0 | n/a | — | 3 problematic | 58.36 | n/a | — |
| Argentina | 1 85 | 0 | 5 repressed | 49.9 | 2 satisfactory | 73.36 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.62 |
| Greece | 1 85 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.1 | 3 problematic | 55.2 | 1 full democracy | 8.14 |
| Mauritius | 1 85 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 71.5 | 3 problematic | 65.56 | 1 full democracy | 8.14 |
| Mongolia | 1 84 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.6 | 3 problematic | 59.33 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.48 |
| Samoa | 1 84 | +1 | 3 moderately free | 67.2 | 2 satisfactory | 82.15 | n/a | — |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1 84 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.5 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Croatia | 1 83 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 67.2 | 2 satisfactory | 71.95 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.50 |
| Panama | 1 83 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 64.1 | 3 problematic | 63.67 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.91 |
| Romania | 1 83 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 64.4 | 3 problematic | 69.04 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.99 |
| South Korea | 1 83 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 73.1 | 3 problematic | 62.83 | 2 flawed democracy | 8.09 |
| United States | 1 80 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 70.1 | 2 problematic | 55.22 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.85 |
| Monaco | 1 82 | -2 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 82 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.4 | 2 satisfactory | 76.54 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.16 |
| Vanuatu | 1 82 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.2 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Tonga | 1 81 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.2 | 2 satisfactory | 71.29 | n/a | — |
| Ghana | 1 80 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.8 | 3 problematic | 65.93 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.30 |
| Jamaica | 1 80 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.1 | 2 satisfactory | 75.89 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.06 |
| Poland | 1 80 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 66.0 | 3 problematic | 67.66 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.18 |
| Seychelles | 1 79 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.4 | 2 satisfactory | 75.71 | n/a | — |
| South Africa | 1 79 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.3 | 2 satisfactory | 78.6 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.05 |
| Suriname | 1 79 | 0 | 5 repressed | 46.7 | 2 satisfactory | 70.62 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.88 |
| Bulgaria | 1 78 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 68.5 | 3 problematic | 62.98 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.41 |
| Namibia | 1 77 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 57.5 | 2 satisfactory | 80.91 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.52 |
| Nauru | 1 77 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Solomon Islands | 1 75 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.0 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Israel | 1 73 | -3 | 2 mostly free | 70.1 | 3 problematic | 57.57 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.80 |
| Guyana | 1 73 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 57.3 | 3 problematic | 67.5 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.26 |
| Botswana | 1 72 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.0 | 3 problematic | 64.61 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.73 |
| Brazil | 1 73 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.2 | 3 problematic | 58.67 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.68 |
| Timor-Leste | 1 72 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 50.2 | 2 satisfactory | 84.49 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.06 |
| Colombia | 1 70 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.2 | 4 difficult | 45.23 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.55 |
| Montenegro | 3 69 | +2 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.7 | 2 satisfactory | 74.28 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.67 |
| Albania | 3 68 | +1 | 3 moderately free | 64.8 | 3 problematic | 57.86 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.28 |
| Dominican Republic | 3 68 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.9 | 2 satisfactory | 71.88 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.44 |
| Ecuador | 3 67 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.0 | 3 problematic | 60.51 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.41 |
| North Macedonia | 3 67 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 61.4 | 2 satisfactory | 74.35 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.03 |
| Senegal | 3 67 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.4 | 3 problematic | 55.82 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.48 |
| Bolivia | 3 66 | 0 | 5 repressed | 43.5 | 4 difficult | 51.09 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.20 |
| Fiji | 3 66 | +7 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.0 | 3 problematic | 59.27 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.55 |
| India | 3 64 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.9 | 5 very serious | 36.62 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.18 |
| Lesotho | 1 66 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.9 | 3 problematic | 64.29 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.06 |
| Malawi | 3 66 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.1 | 3 problematic | 60.34 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.85 |
| Peru | 3 66 | -4 | 3 moderately free | 64.8 | 4 difficult | 52.74 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.81 |
| Hungary | 3 65 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 61.2 | 3 problematic | 62.96 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.72 |
| Liberia | 3 64 | +4 | 5 repressed | 49.9 | 3 problematic | 64.34 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.57 |
| Bhutan | 3 63 | +2 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.4 | 3 problematic | 59.25 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.54 |
| Paraguay | 3 63 | -2 | 3 moderately free | 60.1 | 3 problematic | 55.96 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.92 |
| Nepal | 3 62 | +4 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.1 | 3 problematic | 57.89 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.60 |
| Benin | 3 61 | +2 | 4 mostly unfree | 57.7 | 4 difficult | 52.44 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.68 |
| Moldova | 3 61 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 57.1 | 2 satisfactory | 77.62 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.23 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 61 | 0 | 5 repressed | 49.4 | 3 problematic | 67.62 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.97 |
| Kosovo | 3 60 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 60.6 | 3 problematic | 68.38 | n/a | — |
| Mexico | 3 60 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.0 | 4 difficult | 47.98 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.14 |
| Sierra Leone | 3 60 | -3 | 5 repressed | 44.6 | 3 problematic | 62.55 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.32 |
| Georgia | 3 58 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.4 | 3 problematic | 61.69 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.20 |
| Madagascar | 3 58 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 57.3 | 3 problematic | 56.66 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.26 |
| Philippines | 3 58 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.0 | 4 difficult | 46.21 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.66 |
| Indonesia | 3 57 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 63.5 | 4 difficult | 54.83 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.53 |
| Serbia | 3 57 | -3 | 3 moderately free | 62.7 | 3 problematic | 59.16 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.33 |
| Armenia | 3 54 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 64.9 | 2 satisfactory | 70.61 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.42 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 54 | 0 | 5 repressed | 49.2 | 4 difficult | 45.85 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.17 |
| Zambia | 3 54 | 0 | 5 repressed | 48.4 | 3 problematic | 59.41 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.80 |
| El Salvador | 3 53 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 54.4 | 4 difficult | 51.36 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.71 |
| Malaysia | 3 53 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 65.7 | 3 problematic | 62.83 | 2 flawed democracy | 7.29 |
| Kenya | 3 52 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.6 | 4 difficult | 51.15 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.05 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 51 | -1 | 3 moderately free | 62.0 | 3 problematic | 65.43 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.00 |
| Tunisia | 3 51 | -5 | 5 repressed | 48.8 | 4 difficult | 50.11 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.51 |
| The Gambia | 3 50 | +2 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.2 | 2 satisfactory | 71.06 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.47 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 49 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.4 | 3 problematic | 68.83 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.22 |
| Ukraine | 3 49 | -1 | mostly unfree | — | 3 problematic | 61.19 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.06 |
| Honduras | 3 48 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.6 | 5 very serious | 32.65 | 3 flawed democracy | 4.98 |
| Singapore | 3 48 | +1 | 1 free | 83.5 | 4 difficult | 47.88 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.18 |
| Guatemala | 3 46 | -3 | 3 moderately free | 62.4 | 4 difficult | 48.12 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.47 |
| Maldives | 3 44 | +3 | 5 problematic | 47.8 | 3 problematic | 56.93 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.39 |
| Mozambique | 3 44 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 50.7 | 3 problematic | 56.13 | 5 hybrid regime | 3.51 |
| Nigeria | 3 44 | +1 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.1 | 4 difficult | 49.56 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.23 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 3 43 | 0 | 5 repressed | 42.7 | 3 problematic | 61.57 | 5 hybrid regime | 2.45 |
| Comoros | 3 42 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.0 | 3 problematic | 62.25 | hybrid regime | 3.04 |
| Lebanon | 3 42 | -1 | 5 repressed | 48.3 | 4 difficult | 50.46 | 5 hybrid regime | 3.56 |
| Togo | 3 42 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 50.9 | 3 problematic | 63.06 | 5 hybrid regime | 2.99 |
| Hong Kong | 3 41 | -1 | n/a | — | 4 difficult | 44.86 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.24 |
| Bangladesh | 3 40 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 54.4 | 5 very serious | 35.31 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.87 |
| Mauritania | 3 39 | +3 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.3 | 3 problematic | 59.45 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.14 |
| Kuwait | 3 38 | +1 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.5 | 5 very serious | 38.84 | 5 hybrid regime | 3.50 |
| Morocco | 3 37 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 56.8 | 4 difficult | 43.69 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.04 |
| Tanzania | 3 36 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.1 | 4 difficult | 44.02 | 3 hybrid regime | 5.35 |
| Thailand | 3 36 | +6 | 4 mostly unfree | 59.0 | 3 problematic | 55.24 | 2 flawed democracy | 6.35 |
| Pakistan | 3 35 | -2 | 5 repressed | 49.5 | 5 very serious | 39.95 | 5 flawed democracy | 3.25 |
| Uganda | 5 34 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 50.7 | 4 difficult | 46.08 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.49 |
| Jordan | 5 33 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 58.3 | 4 difficult | 42.79 | 5 hybrid regime | 3.04 |
| Niger | 5 33 | -18 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.3 | 3 problematic | 66.84 | 5 authoritarian | 2.37 |
| Turkey | 5 33 | +1 | 4 mostly unfree | 56.2 | 5 very serious | 33.97 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.33 |
| Algeria | 5 32 | 0 | 5 repressed | 43.9 | 4 difficult | 45.74 | 5 authoritarian | 3.66 |
| Guinea | 5 30 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.3 | 3 problematic | 59.51 | 5 authoritarian | 2.21 |
| Haiti | 5 30 | -1 | 5 repressed | 48.2 | 3 problematic | 57.38 | 5 authoritarian | 2.81 |
| Iraq | 5 30 | +1 | n/a | — | 5 very serious | 32.94 | 5 authoritarian | 2.88 |
| Angola | 5 28 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 54.3 | 4 difficult | 48.3 | 3 hybrid regime | 4.18 |
| Brunei | 5 28 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 65.9 | 4 difficult | 44.2 | n/a | — |
| Burkina Faso | 5 27 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.9 | 3 problematic | 67.64 | 5 authoritarian | 2.73 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5 27 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.2 | 4 difficult | 49.91 | 5 authoritarian | 3.70 |
| Zimbabwe | 5 27 | -1 | 5 repressed | 38.2 | 4 difficult | 48.17 | 5 authoritarian | 3.04 |
| Mali | 5 26 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.5 | 4 difficult | 52.29 | 5 authoritarian | 2.58 |
| Qatar | 5 25 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 68.8 | 3 problematic | 55.28 | 5 authoritarian | 3.65 |
| Djibouti | 5 24 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.8 | 5 very serious | 35.87 | 5 authoritarian | 2.70 |
| Oman | 5 24 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.9 | 5 very serious | 37.87 | 5 authoritarian | 3.12 |
| Cambodia | 5 23 | -1 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.6 | 4 difficult | 42.02 | 5 authoritarian | 3.05 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 23 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.0 | 4 difficult | 45.87 | 5 authoritarian | 3.08 |
| Rwanda | 5 23 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.6 | 4 difficult | 46.58 | 5 authoritarian | 3.30 |
| Ethiopia | 5 20 | -1 | 5 repressed | 47.9 | 4 difficult | 47.7 | 5 authoritarian | 3.37 |
| Gabon | 5 20 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 56.9 | 3 problematic | 58.12 | 5 authoritarian | 2.18 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5 19 | 0 | 5 repressed | 47.6 | 4 difficult | 48.55 | 5 authoritarian | 1.68 |
| Vietnam | 5 19 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 62.8 | 5 very serious | 24.58 | 5 authoritarian | 2.62 |
| Egypt | 5 18 | 0 | 5 repressed | 49.7 | 5 very serious | 33.37 | 5 authoritarian | 2.93 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5 18 | 0 | 2 mostly free | 71.1 | 4 difficult | 42.99 | 5 authoritarian | 3.01 |
| Eswatini | 5 17 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.6 | 4 difficult | 52.66 | 5 authoritarian | 2.78 |
| Republic of the Congo | 5 17 | 0 | 5 repressed | 47.8 | 3 problematic | 60.42 | 5 authoritarian | 2.79 |
| Nicaragua | 5 16 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.4 | 5 very serious | 37.09 | 5 authoritarian | 2.26 |
| Cameroon | 5 15 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 53.6 | 4 difficult | 45.58 | 5 authoritarian | 2.56 |
| Chad | 5 15 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.4 | 4 difficult | 53.73 | 5 authoritarian | 1.67 |
| Venezuela | 5 15 | 0 | 5 repressed | 28.1 | 5 very serious | 36.99 | 5 authoritarian | 2.31 |
| Burundi | 5 14 | 0 | 5 repressed | 38.4 | 4 difficult | 52.14 | 5 authoritarian | 2.13 |
| Laos | 5 13 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 50.6 | 5 very serious | 36.66 | 5 authoritarian | 1.71 |
| Russia | 5 13 | -3 | 4 mostly unfree | 52.0 | 5 very serious | 34.77 | 5 authoritarian | 2.22 |
| Bahrain | 5 12 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 63.4 | 5 very serious | 30.59 | 5 authoritarian | 2.52 |
| Cuba | 5 12 | 0 | 5 repressed | 25.7 | 5 very serious | 29 | 5 authoritarian | 2.65 |
| Uzbekistan | 5 12 | 0 | 4 mostly unfree | 55.9 | 4 difficult | 45.73 | 5 authoritarian | 2.12 |
| Iran | 5 11 | -1 | 5 repressed | 41.2 | 5 very serious | 24.81 | 5 authoritarian | 1.96 |
| Yemen | 5 10 | +1 | n/a | — | 5 very serious | 32.78 | 5 authoritarian | 1.95 |
| China | 5 9 | 0 | 5 repressed | 48.5 | 5 very serious | 22.97 | 5 authoritarian | 2.12 |
| Libya | 5 9 | -1 | n/a | — | 4 difficult | 40.22 | 5 authoritarian | 1.78 |
| Belarus | 5 8 | 0 | 5 repressed | 48.4 | 5 very serious | 37.17 | 5 authoritarian | 1.99 |
| Burma | 5 8 | -1 | 5 repressed | 42.2 | 5 very serious | 28.26 | 5 authoritarian | 0.85 |
| Saudi Arabia | 5 8 | 0 | 3 moderately free | 61.9 | 5 very serious | 32.43 | 5 authoritarian | 2.08 |
| Somalia | 5 8 | 0 | n/a | — | 4 difficult | 44.24 | n/a | — |
| Azerbaijan | 5 7 | -2 | 3 moderately free | 61.6 | 5 very serious | 39.93 | 5 authoritarian | 2.80 |
| Afghanistan | 5 6 | -2 | n/a | — | 5 very serious | 39.75 | 5 authoritarian | 0.26 |
| Sudan | 5 6 | -4 | 5 repressed | 33.9 | 4 difficult | 40.83 | 5 authoritarian | 1.76 |
| Central African Republic | 5 5 | -2 | 5 repressed | 41.3 | 3 problematic | 57.56 | 5 authoritarian | 1.18 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 5 5 | 0 | 5 repressed | 47.7 | 4 difficult | 50.35 | 5 authoritarian | 1.92 |
| Tajikistan | 5 5 | -2 | 4 mostly unfree | 51.3 | 5 very serious | 39.06 | 5 authoritarian | 1.94 |
| Eritrea | 5 3 | 0 | 5 repressed | 39.5 | 5 very serious | 27.86 | 5 authoritarian | 1.97 |
| North Korea | 5 3 | 0 | 5 repressed | 2.9 | 5 very serious | 21.72 | 5 authoritarian | 1.08 |
| Turkmenistan | 5 2 | 0 | 5 repressed | 46.3 | 5 very serious | 25.82 | 5 authoritarian | 1.66 |
| South Sudan | 5 1 | 0 | n/a | — | 4 difficult | 50.62 | n/a | — |
| Syria | 5 1 | 0 | n/a | — | 5 very serious | 27.22 | 5 authoritarian | 1.43 |
| Palestine | n/a | — | n/a | — | 5 very serious | 37.86 | 5 authoritarian | 3.47 |

### Disputed territories

| Country | Freedom in the World 2024 | Score change since 2023 | Press Freedom Index 2023 | Score | Press Freedom Index 2023 | Score | Democracy Index 2024 | Score |
| Taiwan | 1 94 | 0 | 1 free | 80.0 | 2 satisfactory | 75.54 | 1 full democracy | 8.78 |
| Northern Cyprus | 1 76 | 0 | 3 problematic | 61.73 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Somaliland | 3 43 | -1 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Abkhazia | 3 39 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Azad Kashmir | 5 29 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| West Bank | 5 22 | 0 | 5 very serious | 37.86 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Transnistria | 5 17 | -1 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| South Ossetia | 5 12 | 0 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Gaza Strip | 5 8 | -3 | 5 very serious | 37.86 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Western Sahara | 5 4 | 0 | 4 difficult | 43.69 | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Crimea | 5 2 | -2 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |
| Tibet | 5 0 | -1 | n/a | — | n/a | — | n/a | — |