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DEFINITION:
Index of 'economic freedom', according to the American organisation 'The Heritage Foundation'. It is worth noting that such indices are based on highly culturally contingent factors. This data makes a number of assumptions about 'freedom' and the role of the government that are not accepted by much of the world's population. A broad discussion of The Heritage Foundation's definition and methodology can be found at http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/ChapterPDFs/chapter5.HTML.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Switzerland | 81 | 2013 | ||
2 | Denmark | 76.1 | 2013 | ||
3 | Ireland | 75.7 | 2013 | ||
4 | Estonia | 75.3 | 2013 | ||
5 | United Kingdom | 74.8 | 2013 | ||
6 | Luxembourg | 74.2 | 2013 | ||
7 | Finland | 74 | 2013 | ||
8 | Netherlands | 73.5 | 2013 | ||
9 | Sweden | 72.9 | 2013 | ||
10 | Germany | 72.8 | 2013 | ||
11 | Georgia | 72.2 | 2013 | ||
=12 | Lithuania | 72.1 | 2013 | ||
=12 | Iceland | 72.1 | 2013 | ||
14 | Austria | 71.8 | 2013 | ||
15 | Czech Republic | 70.9 | 2013 | ||
16 | Norway | 70.5 | 2013 | ||
17 | Armenia | 69.4 | 2013 | ||
18 | Belgium | 69.2 | 2013 | ||
19 | Cyprus | 69 | 2013 | ||
20 | Slovakia | 68.7 | 2013 | ||
21 | Republic of Macedonia | 68.2 | 2013 | ||
22 | Spain | 68 | 2013 | ||
23 | Malta | 67.5 | 2013 | ||
24 | Hungary | 67.3 | 2013 | ||
25 | Latvia | 66.5 | 2013 | ||
26 | Poland | 66 | 2013 | ||
27 | Albania | 65.2 | 2013 | ||
28 | Romania | 65.1 | 2013 | ||
29 | Bulgaria | 65 | 2013 | ||
30 | France | 64.1 | 2013 | ||
31 | Portugal | 63.1 | 2013 | ||
32 | Turkey | 62.9 | 2013 | ||
33 | Montenegro | 62.6 | 2013 | ||
34 | Slovenia | 61.7 | 2013 | ||
35 | Croatia | 61.3 | 2013 | ||
36 | Italy | 60.6 | 2013 | ||
37 | Azerbaijan | 59.7 | 2013 | ||
38 | Serbia | 58.6 | 2013 | ||
39 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 57.3 | 2013 | ||
40 | Moldova | 55.5 | 2013 | ||
41 | Greece | 55.4 | 2013 | ||
42 | Russia | 51.1 | 2013 | ||
43 | Belarus | 48 | 2013 | ||
44 | Ukraine | 46.3 | 2013 |