civics: “87.4% of world’s population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022”
Ian Vásquez, Matthew D. Mitchell, Ryan Murphy and Guillermina Sutter Schneider
The Human Freedom Index 2024
- When people are freer, they are allowed to make more of their own choices.
- Governments can either prevent individual choice by limiting what people are allowed to do with their persons and property, or it can safeguard individual choice by protecting people, their property, and their decisions.
- The Human Freedom Index measures the degree of freedom in 165 countries using 86 indicators of economic and personal freedom.
- It includes data from 2000 through 2022.
- After having fallen significantly in 2020 and further in 2021, human freedom increased in 2022 but remained well below its pre-pandemic level.