B BullDozer

Happiness Driver: Freedom

Contribution of freedom to make life choices to the happiness score. World Happiness Report, 2019–2025.

Source: World Happiness Report (Gallup World Poll) Licence: CC BY 4.0 Unit: ladder pts Parsed: 2026-08-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2025)
0.9
+0.10pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 146 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
146
±0.5pp band

Freedom contribution

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2019–2025.

0.30.50.70.81 2019202020212022202320242025
Europe & Central AsiaAmericasMiddle East & North AfricaEast Asia & PacificAdvanced / otherSub-Saharan AfricaSouth Asia

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Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇩🇿 Algeria 0.9 +0.41pp
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0.7 +0.27pp
🇭🇷 Croatia 0.7 +0.20pp
🇬🇲 Gambia 0.8 +0.20pp
🇬🇳 Guinea 0.9 +0.19pp

Top fallers

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By group

Change by group, latest period.

Middle East & North Africa +0.20pp
Americas +0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific +0.10pp
Europe & Central Asia +0.10pp
Advanced / other +0.10pp
Sub-Saharan Africa +0.10pp
South Asia +0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 23 1 +0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific 13 1 +0.10pp
Europe & Central Asia 41 0.9 +0.10pp
Advanced / other 13 0.9 +0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa 17 0.8 +0.20pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 33 0.8 +0.10pp
South Asia 6 0.7 +0.10pp

Happiness Driver: Freedom — 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.

146 entities, 2025, change vs 2024. Highest first.
#EntityFreedom contributionChange
1🇻🇳 Viet Nam1.1+0.14pp
2🇧🇿 Belize1.1+0.13pp
3🇰🇭 Cambodia1.1+0.14pp
4🇲🇾 Malaysia1.1+0.12pp
5🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan1.1+0.13pp
6🇫🇮 Finland1.1+0.12pp
7🇮🇸 Iceland1.1+0.13pp
8🇨🇷 Costa Rica1.1+0.15pp
9🇸🇮 Slovenia1.1+0.14pp
10🇳🇴 Norway1.1+0.13pp
11🇸🇻 El Salvador1.1+0.13pp
12🇹🇭 Thailand1.1+0.16pp
13🇺🇿 Uzbekistan1.1+0.11pp
14🇵🇭 Philippines1.1+0.12pp
15🇩🇰 Denmark1.1+0.13pp
16🇧🇩 Bangladesh1.1+0.16pp
17🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates1.1+0.14pp
18🇸🇪 Sweden1.1+0.12pp
19🇱🇦 Lao PDR1.1+0.15pp
20🇴🇲 Oman1.1+0.13pp
21🇱🇺 Luxembourg1.1+0.13pp
22🇧🇭 Bahrain1.1+0.15pp
23🇺🇾 Uruguay1.1+0.14pp
24🇽🇰 Kosovo1+0.15pp
25🇨🇿 Czechia1+0.13pp
26🇮🇩 Indonesia1+0.12pp
27🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia1+0.13pp
28🇵🇾 Paraguay1+0.12pp
29🇨🇭 Switzerland1+0.15pp
30🇳🇿 New Zealand1+0.17pp
31🇬🇹 Guatemala1+0.15pp
32🇮🇪 Ireland1+0.13pp
33🇰🇼 Kuwait1+0.10pp
34🇳🇮 Nicaragua1+0.12pp
35🇲🇽 Mexico1+0.14pp
36🇩🇴 Dominican Republic1+0.15pp
37🇮🇳 India1+0.10pp
38🇦🇱 Albania1+0.17pp
39🇹🇿 Tanzania1+0.15pp
40🇵🇹 Portugal1+0.13pp
41🇳🇱 Netherlands1+0.14pp
42🇭🇳 Honduras1+0.14pp
43🇿🇲 Zambia1+0.12pp
44🇧🇪 Belgium1+0.09pp
45🇪🇪 Estonia1+0.09pp
46🇦🇺 Australia1+0.13pp
47🇬🇪 Georgia1+0.14pp
48🇰🇿 Kazakhstan1+0.10pp
49🇲🇩 Republic of Moldova1+0.15pp
50🇸🇬 Singapore1+0.12pp
51🇦🇹 Austria1+0.12pp
52🇲🇹 Malta1+0.14pp
53🇵🇦 Panama1+0.10pp
54🇦🇷 Argentina1+0.15pp
55🇯🇲 Jamaica1+0.10pp
56🇷🇴 Romania1+0.12pp
57🇧🇷 Brazil1+0.13pp
58🇬🇧 United Kingdom1+0.09pp
59🇩🇪 Germany0.9+0.09pp
60🇨🇦 Canada0.9+0.14pp
61🇵🇱 Poland0.9+0.15pp
62🇱🇻 Latvia0.9+0.15pp
63🇲🇪 Montenegro0.9+0.17pp
64🇦🇿 Azerbaijan0.9+0.15pp
65🇩🇿 Algeria0.9+0.41pp
66🇬🇭 Ghana0.9+0.16pp
67🇸🇴 Somalia0.9+0.01pp
68🇨🇱 Chile0.9+0.15pp
69🇲🇺 Mauritius0.9+0.17pp
70🇺🇬 Uganda0.9+0.17pp
71🇸🇳 Senegal0.9+0.16pp
72🇨🇴 Colombia0.9+0.14pp
73🇦🇲 Armenia0.9+0.13pp
74🇷🇸 Serbia0.9+0.15pp
75🇧🇴 Bolivia0.9+0.09pp
76🇲🇱 Mali0.9+0.14pp
77🇳🇪 Niger0.9+0.14pp
78🇱🇹 Lithuania0.9+0.19pp
79🇲🇿 Mozambique0.9+0.08pp
80🇳🇵 Nepal0.9+0.12pp
81🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago0.9+0.12pp
82🇧🇬 Bulgaria0.9+0.17pp
83🇹🇼 Taiwan Province of China0.9+0.12pp
84🇯🇵 Japan0.9+0.13pp
85🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina0.9+0.13pp
86🇱🇰 Sri Lanka0.9+0.18pp
87🇬🇳 Guinea0.9+0.19pp
88🇱🇾 Libya0.9+0.14pp
89🇮🇱 Israel0.9+0.12pp
90🇪🇨 Ecuador0.9+0.15pp
91🇧🇼 Botswana0.9+0.16pp
92🇪🇸 Spain0.9+0.12pp
93🇯🇴 Jordan0.9+0.15pp
94🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR of China0.9+0.18pp
95🇵🇪 Peru0.8+0.14pp
96🇸🇰 Slovakia0.8+0.14pp
97🇻🇪 Venezuela0.8+0.14pp
98🇲🇦 Morocco0.8+0.10pp
99🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire0.8+0.18pp
100🇫🇷 France0.8+0.09pp
101🇬🇦 Gabon0.8+0.18pp
102🇰🇷 Republic of Korea0.8+0.15pp
103🇿🇦 South Africa0.8+0.15pp
104🇨🇲 Cameroon0.8+0.16pp
105🇧🇫 Burkina Faso0.8+0.15pp
106🇧🇯 Benin0.8+0.14pp
107🇲🇼 Malawi0.8+0.14pp
108🇷🇺 Russian Federation0.8+0.11pp
109🇬🇲 Gambia0.8+0.20pp
110🇸🇱 Sierra Leone0.8+0.19pp
111🇰🇪 Kenya0.8+0.15pp
112🇱🇷 Liberia0.8+0.14pp
113🇨🇾 Cyprus0.8+0.18pp
114🇨🇳 China0.8+0.03pp
115🇭🇺 Hungary0.8+0.10pp
116🇺🇸 United States0.8+0.13pp
117🇲🇳 Mongolia0.8+0.12pp
118🇨🇬 Congo0.8+0.13pp
119🇮🇹 Italy0.7+0.10pp
120🇵🇸 State of Palestine0.7+0.12pp
121🇱🇸 Lesotho0.7+0.14pp
122🇲🇰 North Macedonia0.7+0.10pp
123🇳🇬 Nigeria0.7+0.10pp
124🇿🇼 Zimbabwe0.7+0.13pp
125🇪🇬 Egypt0.7+0.13pp
126🇺🇦 Ukraine0.7+0.03pp
127🇲🇲 Myanmar0.7+0.15pp
128🇨🇩 DR Congo0.7+0.12pp
129🇹🇬 Togo0.7+0.11pp
130🇭🇷 Croatia0.7+0.20pp
131🇳🇦 Namibia0.7+0.11pp
132🇪🇹 Ethiopia0.7+0.11pp
133🇹🇳 Tunisia0.7+0.27pp
134🇮🇶 Iraq0.6+0.11pp
135🇮🇷 Iran0.6+0.14pp
136🇲🇷 Mauritania0.6+0.14pp
137🇸🇿 Eswatini0.6+0.15pp
138🇹🇩 Chad0.6+0.09pp
139🇵🇰 Pakistan0.6+0.03pp
140🇾🇪 Yemen0.5+0.10pp
141🇬🇷 Greece0.5+0.08pp
142🇱🇧 Lebanon0.4+0.15pp
143🇲🇬 Madagascar0.4+0.09pp
144🇰🇲 Comoros0.4+0.11pp
145🇹🇷 Türkiye0.4+0.12pp
146🇦🇫 Afghanistan00.00pp

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