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December 18, 2019

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The Human Freedom Index 2019 ([link removed] )

Global freedom has continued its slight decline since 2008, according to the fifth annual Human Freedom Index (HFI), the most comprehensive measure of freedom ever created for a large number of countries around the globe. Notably, New Zealand tops the rankings this year, followed by Switzerland. The United States ranks 15th.

The index, co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany, ranks 162 countries based on 76 distinct indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedom, using data from 2008 to 2017, the most recent year for which sufficient data are available.

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By Ian Vasquez and Tanja Porčnik

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