Civil liberties score

Freedom House’s rating of belief, expression, association and personal autonomy.

measured by: Freedom House
years covered: 2003–2025
subject: Personal

Higher means more freedom.

How this is measured

Fifteen questions scored 0–4 by analysts and advisers, across freedom of expression and belief, associational and organisational rights, rule of law, and personal autonomy and individual rights — out of 60. Freedom House has published a survey annually since 1973, but only in this scored form from 2003, and 2003 is where the series here begins; the earlier decades exist as a coarser seven-point rating that is not the same measure and is not shown. Freedom House assesses territories as well as states, and its judgements are contested in both directions.

Ranked for 2025

167 countries and territories have a figure for 2025. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 2003.

#	Country	Region	Liberties (FH)
1	Finland	Europe	60.0
2	Norway	Europe	60.0
3	Luxembourg	Europe	59.0
4	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	59.0
5	Sweden	Europe	59.0
6	Canada	Americas	58.0
7	Czechia	Europe	58.0
8	Ireland	Europe	58.0
9	Netherlands	Europe	58.0
10	Slovenia	Europe	58.0
11	Belgium	Europe	57.0
12	Switzerland	Europe	57.0
13	Chile	Americas	57.0
14	Denmark	Europe	57.0
15	Estonia	Europe	57.0
16	Iceland	Europe	57.0
17	Portugal	Europe	57.0
18	Uruguay	Americas	57.0
19	Austria	Europe	56.0
20	Japan	Asia-Pacific	56.0
21	Australia	Asia-Pacific	55.0
22	Germany	Europe	55.0
23	Taiwan	Asia-Pacific	55.0
24	Spain	Europe	54.0
25	Belize	Americas	53.0
26	Costa Rica	Americas	53.0
27	United Kingdom	Europe	53.0
28	Slovakia	Europe	53.0
29	Bahamas	Americas	52.0
30	Cyprus	Europe	52.0
31	Italy	Europe	52.0
32	Lithuania	Europe	52.0
33	Latvia	Europe	52.0
34	France	Europe	51.0
35	Argentina	Americas	50.0
36	Greece	Europe	50.0
37	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	50.0
38	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	50.0
39	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	49.0
40	United States	Americas	49.0
41	Croatia	Europe	48.0
42	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	48.0
43	Poland	Europe	48.0
44	Romania	Europe	48.0
45	Jamaica	Americas	47.0
46	Panama	Americas	47.0
47	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	47.0
48	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	47.0
49	Suriname	Americas	46.0
50	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.0
51	Guyana	Americas	45.0
52	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.0
53	Bulgaria	Europe	44.0
54	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	44.0
55	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	44.0
56	Brazil	Americas	43.0
57	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	42.0
58	Montenegro	Europe	42.0
59	Albania	Europe	41.0
60	Hungary	Europe	41.0
61	Dominican Republic	Americas	40.0
62	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	40.0
63	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	40.0
64	Bolivia	Americas	39.0
65	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	39.0
66	North Macedonia	Europe	39.0
67	Peru	Americas	39.0
68	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	39.0
69	Colombia	Americas	38.0
70	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.0
71	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.0
72	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	37.0
73	Ecuador	Americas	37.0
74	Paraguay	Americas	37.0
75	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	36.0
76	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	36.0
77	Moldova	Eurasia	35.0
78	Serbia	Europe	35.0
79	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.0
80	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	34.0
81	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.0
82	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	33.0
83	Georgia	Eurasia	32.0
84	Mexico	Americas	32.0
85	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	32.0
86	Armenia	Eurasia	31.0
87	India	Asia-Pacific	31.0
88	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	31.0
89	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	31.0
90	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	31.0
91	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	29.0
92	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.0
93	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.0
94	Guatemala	Americas	29.0
95	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	29.0
96	Ukraine	Eurasia	29.0
97	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	28.0
98	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	28.0
99	El Salvador	Americas	27.0
100	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.0
101	Honduras	Americas	26.0
102	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	26.0
103	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	26.0
104	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	24.0
105	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.0
106	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	24.0
107	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	23.0
108	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.0
109	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.0
110	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.0
111	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	22.0
112	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	22.0
113	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	22.0
114	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	21.0
115	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	21.0
116	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	20.0
117	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	20.0
118	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	20.0
119	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.0
120	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.0
121	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.0
122	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	18.0
123	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	18.0
124	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.0
125	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	18.0
126	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	18.0
127	Haiti	Americas	17.0
128	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	17.0
129	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	16.0
130	Turkey	Eurasia	16.0
131	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	16.0
132	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.0
133	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	15.0
134	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.0
135	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.0
136	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	14.0
137	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	13.0
138	Venezuela	Americas	13.0
139	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	12.0
140	Nicaragua	Americas	12.0
141	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	12.0
142	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	11.0
143	China	Asia-Pacific	11.0
144	Laos	Asia-Pacific	11.0
145	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	10.0
146	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	10.0
147	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	9.0
148	Cuba	Americas	9.0
149	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	9.0
150	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	8.0
151	Russia	Eurasia	8.0
152	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	8.0
153	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	7.0
154	Western Sahara	Middle East & North Africa	7.0
155	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	6.0
156	Belarus	Eurasia	6.0
157	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	6.0
158	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	6.0
159	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.0
160	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.0
161	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	5.0
162	Tajikistan	Eurasia	5.0
163	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.0
164	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	4.0
165	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	3.0
166	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.0
167	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	1.0

Data by year

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Source and licence

Freedom House — Freedom in the World

Non-commercial use with citation; adaptation not addressed. Freedom House, Freedom in the World How every source was checked

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