South Africa: property rights index 2000-2020

The property rights sub-score on the Economic Freedom Index for South Africa was 58.4 as of 2020, which presented a slight decline of 0.4 points from the preceding year. Between 2000 and 2020, the sub-score fluctuated between 50 points from 2000 to 2015 and 67.7 points in 2018. Throughout the period under review, the South African value exceeded the African average, while the same was nearly true with comparison to the world average, except for the years 2000 and 2001. According to the index, the property rights in South Africa were considered "mostly unfree" as of 2020.

Property rights sub-score of South Africa on the Economic Freedom Index from 2000 to 2020

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Release date

2020

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Region

South Africa

Survey time period

2000 to 2020

Supplementary notes

The source did not provide the date of publication. The release date is the date the statistic was accessed.

The Economic Freedom Index was co-published by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation and was started in 1994.

The source considers the Sub-Saharan Africa region without the North African countries as they are included in the MENA region. Therefore, the African average has been calculated by Statista based on the original data for each country. The African average includes 52 countries until 2011 and 53 countries from 2012 onwards.

The Economic Freedom Index is divided into 12 variables grouped in four categories:
1) Rule of law: property rights, judicial effectiveness, and government integrity
2) Government size: tax burden, government spending, and fiscal health
3) Regulatory efficiency: business freedom, labor freedom, and monetary freedom
4) Market openness: trade freedom, investment freedom, and financial freedom

Ranking: 100 = total economic freedom; 80–99 = free; 70.0–79.9 = mostly free; 60.0–69.9 = moderately free; 50.0–59.9= mostly unfree; 0–49.9 = repressed; 0 = no economic freedom.

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