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Freedom of Expression (V-Dem)

Freedom of Expression. V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy, 2018–2025.

Source: V-Dem Institute — Varieties of Democracy Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Unit: index 0–1 Parsed: 2026-08-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2025)
0.6
0.00pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 179 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
179
±0.5pp band

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2018–2025.

0.30.50.60.70.8 20182019202020212022202320242025
AmericasEurope & Central AsiaSub-Saharan AfricaEast Asia & PacificMiddle East & North AfricaSouth AsiaAdvanced / other

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Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇸🇾 Syria 0.4 +0.29pp
🇲🇺 Mauritius 0.9 +0.27pp
Palestine/Gaza 0.2 +0.16pp
🇰🇷 South Korea 0.9 +0.15pp
🇧🇩 Bangladesh 0.5 +0.08pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇺🇸 United States of America 0.7 -0.18pp
🇹🇿 Tanzania 0.6 -0.13pp
🇲🇱 Mali 0.5 -0.10pp
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 0.3 -0.09pp
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 0.8 -0.08pp

By group

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Advanced / other +0.10pp
Americas 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 0.00pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 0.00pp
South Asia 0.00pp
Middle East & North Africa 0.00pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 27 0.7 0.00pp
Europe & Central Asia 49 0.7 0.00pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 0.6 0.00pp
East Asia & Pacific 23 0.6 0.00pp
South Asia 8 0.6 0.00pp
Advanced / other 4 0.5 +0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa 20 0.4 0.00pp

Freedom of Expression (V-Dem) — full ranking

Every entity in this dataset, in HTML. The interactive panel above shows the same numbers; this is the one that survives without JavaScript.

179 entities, 2025, change vs 2024. Highest first.
#EntityFreedom of ExpressionChange
1🇩🇰 Denmark1-0.01pp
2🇮🇪 Ireland1-0.00pp
3🇧🇪 Belgium10.00pp
4🇪🇪 Estonia10.00pp
5🇨🇭 Switzerland10.00pp
6🇫🇷 France10.00pp
7🇱🇺 Luxembourg10.00pp
8🇳🇴 Norway1+0.01pp
9🇨🇿 Czechia0.9-0.01pp
10🇸🇪 Sweden0.90.00pp
11🇫🇮 Finland0.9-0.00pp
12🇰🇷 South Korea0.9+0.15pp
13🇨🇦 Canada0.9-0.01pp
14🇱🇻 Latvia0.90.00pp
15🇺🇾 Uruguay0.9+0.02pp
16🇳🇿 New Zealand0.9-0.02pp
17🇨🇱 Chile0.9-0.00pp
18🇯🇲 Jamaica0.90.00pp
19🇦🇹 Austria0.9-0.01pp
20🇵🇱 Poland0.9+0.01pp
21🇱🇹 Lithuania0.9-0.02pp
22🇦🇺 Australia0.9-0.01pp
23🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.90.00pp
24🇩🇪 Germany0.9-0.01pp
25🇧🇧 Barbados0.9-0.01pp
26🇧🇷 Brazil0.9-0.01pp
27🇳🇱 Netherlands0.9+0.02pp
28🇩🇴 Dominican Republic0.9+0.00pp
29🇰🇪 Kenya0.9+0.00pp
30🇵🇹 Portugal0.90.00pp
31🇬🇭 Ghana0.9+0.04pp
32🇸🇷 Suriname0.9+0.00pp
33🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago0.9+0.00pp
34🇲🇺 Mauritius0.9+0.27pp
35🇸🇨 Seychelles0.9+0.05pp
36🇱🇰 Sri Lanka0.9+0.01pp
37🇭🇳 Honduras0.9-0.01pp
38🇳🇦 Namibia0.9+0.02pp
39🇨🇻 Cape Verde0.9-0.00pp
40🇲🇪 Montenegro0.9-0.00pp
41🇳🇬 Nigeria0.8-0.04pp
42🇻🇺 Vanuatu0.8-0.04pp
43🇯🇵 Japan0.8-0.00pp
44🇮🇸 Iceland0.8-0.07pp
45🇪🇸 Spain0.8-0.01pp
46🇸🇧 Solomon Islands0.80.00pp
47🇬🇹 Guatemala0.8+0.03pp
48🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea0.8+0.02pp
49🇹🇼 Taiwan0.8-0.01pp
50🇹🇱 Timor-Leste0.8+0.00pp
51🇿🇦 South Africa0.8+0.00pp
52🇱🇷 Liberia0.80.00pp
53🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.8-0.08pp
54🇲🇹 Malta0.80.00pp
55🇸🇱 Sierra Leone0.80.00pp
56🇮🇱 Israel0.8-0.02pp
57🇸🇳 Senegal0.80.00pp
58🇬🇲 The Gambia0.8+0.01pp
59🇳🇵 Nepal0.8-0.02pp
60🇵🇦 Panama0.8+0.01pp
61🇨🇾 Cyprus0.8-0.01pp
62🇨🇴 Colombia0.8-0.03pp
63🇬🇷 Greece0.8+0.00pp
64🇭🇹 Haiti0.8+0.01pp
65🇧🇼 Botswana0.8+0.00pp
66🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe0.80.00pp
67🇿🇲 Zambia0.8-0.01pp
68🇷🇴 Romania0.8+0.04pp
69🇲🇳 Mongolia0.8+0.08pp
70🇬🇾 Guyana0.8-0.02pp
71🇽🇰 Kosovo0.8+0.01pp
72🇸🇰 Slovakia0.8-0.04pp
73🇵🇪 Peru0.8+0.02pp
74🇳🇪 Niger0.8+0.01pp
75🇮🇹 Italy0.8-0.08pp
76🇲🇼 Malawi0.8-0.03pp
77🇧🇬 Bulgaria0.8-0.06pp
78🇵🇾 Paraguay0.80.00pp
79🇬🇦 Gabon0.7-0.01pp
80🇱🇧 Lebanon0.7+0.02pp
81🇭🇷 Croatia0.7-0.02pp
82🇦🇷 Argentina0.7-0.03pp
83🇦🇲 Armenia0.7+0.00pp
84🇺🇸 United States of America0.7-0.18pp
85🇱🇸 Lesotho0.7+0.02pp
86🇫🇯 Fiji0.7-0.02pp
87🇪🇨 Ecuador0.7-0.04pp
88🇲🇻 Maldives0.7-0.04pp
89🇸🇮 Slovenia0.7-0.06pp
90🇮🇩 Indonesia0.7-0.05pp
91🇹🇳 Tunisia0.7-0.06pp
92🇬🇪 Georgia0.7-0.01pp
93🇧🇹 Bhutan0.7-0.02pp
94🇨🇮 Ivory Coast0.7+0.03pp
95🇧🇴 Bolivia0.7-0.05pp
96🇵🇭 Philippines0.70.00pp
97🇧🇯 Benin0.7-0.01pp
98🇦🇱 Albania0.7-0.02pp
99🇲🇰 North Macedonia0.7+0.01pp
100Somaliland0.7+0.02pp
101🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina0.7-0.01pp
102🇲🇩 Moldova0.7-0.02pp
103🇲🇬 Madagascar0.6-0.02pp
104🇲🇷 Mauritania0.6-0.02pp
105🇲🇽 Mexico0.6-0.03pp
106🇸🇴 Somalia0.60.00pp
107🇨🇫 Central African Republic0.6+0.02pp
108🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo0.6+0.02pp
109🇹🇭 Thailand0.6+0.01pp
110🇲🇾 Malaysia0.6-0.01pp
111🇲🇦 Morocco0.6-0.02pp
112🇹🇬 Togo0.6+0.00pp
113🇮🇶 Iraq0.6+0.04pp
114🇬🇳 Guinea0.6+0.02pp
115🇵🇰 Pakistan0.60.00pp
116🇯🇴 Jordan0.6-0.02pp
117🇹🇿 Tanzania0.6-0.13pp
118🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau0.6-0.07pp
119Zanzibar0.5+0.04pp
120🇱🇾 Libya0.5-0.02pp
121🇨🇲 Cameroon0.5-0.06pp
122🇰🇼 Kuwait0.5-0.03pp
123🇧🇩 Bangladesh0.5+0.08pp
124🇲🇿 Mozambique0.5-0.00pp
125🇰🇲 Comoros0.5+0.03pp
126🇦🇴 Angola0.5+0.01pp
127🇭🇺 Hungary0.5-0.02pp
128🇲🇱 Mali0.5-0.10pp
129🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan0.5-0.01pp
130🇮🇳 India0.5-0.02pp
131🇺🇬 Uganda0.4-0.01pp
132🇹🇩 Chad0.4-0.04pp
133🇷🇸 Serbia0.4-0.01pp
134🇺🇦 Ukraine0.4+0.01pp
135🇿🇼 Zimbabwe0.4-0.03pp
136🇸🇬 Singapore0.4+0.05pp
137🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo0.4-0.03pp
138🇩🇿 Algeria0.4+0.02pp
139🇸🇾 Syria0.4+0.29pp
140🇸🇻 El Salvador0.4-0.04pp
141🇵🇸 Palestine/West Bank0.4+0.04pp
142🇩🇯 Djibouti0.30.00pp
143🇰🇿 Kazakhstan0.3-0.03pp
144🇸🇩 Sudan0.3+0.02pp
145🇪🇹 Ethiopia0.3+0.04pp
146🇧🇫 Burkina Faso0.3-0.09pp
147Palestine/Gaza0.2+0.16pp
148🇺🇿 Uzbekistan0.2+0.01pp
149🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.2-0.04pp
150🇾🇪 Yemen0.2-0.02pp
151🇪🇬 Egypt0.2+0.00pp
152🇹🇷 Türkiye0.2-0.00pp
153🇧🇭 Bahrain0.2+0.01pp
154🇷🇼 Rwanda0.2+0.02pp
155🇮🇷 Iran0.2-0.06pp
156🇧🇮 Burundi0.2+0.01pp
157🇸🇸 South Sudan0.2-0.03pp
158🇰🇭 Cambodia0.2-0.01pp
159🇴🇲 Oman0.20.00pp
160🇻🇪 Venezuela0.1-0.06pp
161🇸🇿 Eswatini0.10.00pp
162🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea0.1-0.03pp
163🇻🇳 Vietnam0.1-0.02pp
164🇦🇿 Azerbaijan0.1-0.03pp
165🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia0.1+0.01pp
166🇷🇺 Russia0.10.00pp
167🇨🇺 Cuba0.1-0.02pp
168🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.1+0.00pp
169🇶🇦 Qatar0.1+0.00pp
170🇨🇳 China0+0.00pp
171🇹🇯 Tajikistan0-0.04pp
172🇹🇲 Turkmenistan0-0.00pp
173🇱🇦 Laos0-0.01pp
174🇲🇲 Burma/Myanmar0-0.01pp
175🇧🇾 Belarus0-0.00pp
176🇪🇷 Eritrea00.00pp
177🇦🇫 Afghanistan0-0.06pp
178🇳🇮 Nicaragua0-0.00pp
179🇰🇵 North Korea00.00pp

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