Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.

The index published in Economic freedom of the world measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of privately owned property.

Derives an indicator for economic freedom based on personal choice, protection of private property, and freedom of exchange. Considers levels and trends in economic freedom, and their correlation with economic growth in 103 countries.

Freedom in the World contains both comparative ratings and written narratives and is now the standard reference work for measuring the progress and decline in political rights and civil liberties on a global basis.

A survey of the state of human freedom around the world investigates such crucial indicators as the status of civil and political liberties and provides individual country reports.

Fred McMahon Fred McMahon is the director of the The Fraser Institute's Centre for Globalization Studies, which coordinates the annual reports, Economic Freedom of the World, and the Economic Freedom Network, a group of allied institutes in nearly 70 nations. [...] As expected, the impact of economic muting the impact of economic freedom and perversely freedom at the all-government level is greater than the creating incentives for provincial politicians to limit eco- impact at the subnational level since the first index cap- nomic freedom and, thus, economic growth since this tures a broader range of limitations on economic freedom increases the flow of fede [...] This examines the im- the far left of the chart, "Bottom," represents the juris- pact on economic activity of a jurisdiction's being above dictions that score in the lowest fifth of the economic or below the average ranking of other national jurisdic- freedom ratings, the 12 lowest of the 60 North Ameri- tions, comparing Canadian provinces with the Canadian can jurisdictions. [...] The rankings on both the all-government and the Overview of the Results subnational indexes are very similar, with correlation ma- for the United States trixes of 0.89 for the ranks of the two indexes and 0.90 for the scores of the two indexes. [...] However, this is at For example, in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, the nation's least partly due to the the importance of oil in the Texas most economically depressed region, net federal spending- economy and the fact that oil prices were extremely high the difference between federal revenues raised in the region at the beginning of the period under study, 1981, and rela- and the amount of federal s.

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. Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of individuals and is defined here as negative liberty or the absence of coercive constraint. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human progress, it is worth measuring carefully. The Human Freedom Index is a resource that can help to more objectively observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena, as well as the ways in which the various dimensions of freedom interact with one another.The report is co?published by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute.