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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.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Australia | 82.6 | 2013 | ||
2 | New Zealand | 81.4 | 2013 | ||
3 | Switzerland | 81 | 2013 | ||
4 | Canada | 79.4 | 2013 | ||
5 | Chile | 79 | 2013 | ||
6 | Denmark | 76.1 | 2013 | ||
7 | United States | 76 | 2013 | ||
8 | Ireland | 75.7 | 2013 | ||
9 | Estonia | 75.3 | 2013 | ||
10 | United Kingdom | 74.8 | 2013 | ||
11 | Luxembourg | 74.2 | 2013 | ||
12 | Finland | 74 | 2013 | ||
13 | Netherlands | 73.5 | 2013 | ||
14 | Sweden | 72.9 | 2013 | ||
15 | Germany | 72.8 | 2013 | ||
16 | Iceland | 72.1 | 2013 | ||
=17 | Austria | 71.8 | 2013 | ||
=17 | Japan | 71.8 | 2013 | ||
19 | Czech Republic | 70.9 | 2013 | ||
20 | Norway | 70.5 | 2013 | ||
21 | South Korea | 70.3 | 2013 | ||
22 | Belgium | 69.2 | 2013 | ||
23 | Slovakia | 68.7 | 2013 | ||
24 | Spain | 68 | 2013 | ||
25 | Israel | 66.9 | 2013 | ||
26 | Poland | 66 | 2013 | ||
27 | France | 64.1 | 2013 | ||
28 | Portugal | 63.1 | 2013 | ||
29 | Slovenia | 61.7 | 2013 | ||
30 | Italy | 60.6 | 2013 | ||
31 | Greece | 55.4 | 2013 |