Economic Freedom of the World

Fraser Institute — economic freedom across size of government, property rights, sound money, trade and regulation (higher = freer). 2015–2022.

Source: Economic Freedom of the World (Fraser Institute, via QoG) Licence: Free for research use (QoG standard dataset) Unit: score 0–10 Parsed: 2026 Open source ↗

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Avg (2022)
6.5
-0.10pp vs 2021
Improving
1
of 163 tracked
Declining
3
period over period
Stable
159
±0.5pp band

Economic Freedom of the World

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2015–2022.

5.76.26.77.27.7 20152016201720182019202020212022
AsiaEuropeAmericasAfrica

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇿🇲 Zambia 6.2 +0.54pp
🇵🇾 Paraguay 7 +0.45pp
🇸🇨 Seychelles 7 +0.32pp
🇬🇳 Guinea 5.6 +0.32pp
🇳🇵 Nepal 6.5 +0.28pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇺🇦 Ukraine 5.1 -0.94pp
🇲🇩 Moldova 6.5 -0.63pp
🇲🇲 Myanmar 4.5 -0.54pp
🇹🇷 Türkiye 5.6 -0.49pp
🇳🇬 Nigeria 6 -0.48pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Americas 0.00pp
Asia 0.00pp
Africa 0.00pp
Europe -0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Europe 44 7.2 -0.10pp
Americas 28 6.6 0.00pp
Asia 42 6.5 0.00pp
Africa 49 5.8 0.00pp