And the award for "Most Freedom in the World" goes to ...

by Ben Reilly Sun Sep 29, 2013 5:35 pm

The N-Zed!

New Zealand leads the way in human freedom according to an international index that ranks 123 countries.

The Canadian Fraser Institute has released its report evaluating how each country measures in security and safety, movement, expression and relationship freedoms.

New Zealand topped the index as offering the highest level of human freedom worldwide, followed by the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Australia came in fourth. The US ranked seventh.

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Top 10 Countries:

1. New Zealand

2. Netherlands

3. Hong Kong

4. Australia

4. Canada

4. Ireland

7. United States of America

7. Denmark

9. Japan

9. Estonia

Bottom 10 Countries:

114. Cameroon

115. Burundi

116. Iran

117. Algeria

118. Democratic Republic of Congo

119. Syria

120. Sri Lanka

121. Pakistan

122. Burma

123. Zimbabwe

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10858183

by Beekeeper Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:52 pm

THE KIWI's have topped these kinds of rankings for the past few years...

I remember looking at a similar list some 2 or 3 years ago, where Australia was #7, the UK in 8th, and the USA was outside the top 10 (something like 12th or 14th, I think it was..).

These latest results means that both Australia and the USA have kept on steadily climbing that "freedom ladder" ~ while Britain under good ol' Dave C., Rebecca Brooks and Uncle Ruppert has managed to slide on down out of sight ! king

by Guest Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:59 pm

Unless it is the same author using the same measurements, it won't be a good measure of how things are changing.

Good for a little fun though.

by Beekeeper Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:13 pm

IT'S an "institute" situated within a Canadian university, 'Andy, (as most such organisations usually are..) where they have been consistently collecting, measuring, analysing and collating the relevant data from the same or similar ranges of sources over several years...

ALL that this initial table really show us, is the relative positioning of each country in respect to one another, in regard to this "freedom index"..

TO get a more detailed analysis of just where each country has moved up or down, you would obviously have to visit that institute's annual report. study

by Guest Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:23 pm

I think the top few countries are the ones where the people are more laid back. For example, the other day I parked outside a shop in town to pick up some heavy bags. Another man parked in front of me. Along came a traffic warden, stopped the man in front who said "sure I won't be a couple of minutes". Okay said the warden and sauntered on, totally ignoring my car. Can you imagine that happening in the UK?

by veya_victaous Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:55 am

I think our freedom index will be smashed next year, PM Abbot has taken away so many, in the last 6 months Evil or Very Mad

by Ben Reilly Sat Mar 01, 2014 5:31 am

veya_victaous wrote:I think our freedom index will be smashed next year, PM Abbot has taken away so many, in the last 6 months

That's really sad; fourth place in the world is awesome. I think any government that isn't striving to top this list is illegitimate.

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