Freedom House Freedom Index for worldwide regions 2022

According to the Freedom House Freedom Index 2023, the share of countries ranked as free worldwide in 2022 was 43 percent, with 28 percent ranked as partly free and 29 percent as not free. Europe was the region with the highest share of free countries, whereas in Eurasia, no countries were classified as free.

Degrees of freedom in regions of the world by Freedom House Freedom Index 2022 (in percent of all countries of the region)

Characteristic	Free	Partially free	Not free
Europe	81%	17%	2%
Americas	66%	23%	11%
Asia and Pacific	44%	33%	23%
Global	43%	28%	29%
Africa	17%	37%	46%
Middle East	8%	15%	77%
Eurasia	0%	33%	67%

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Release date

March 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Freedom in the World 2022 evaluates the state of freedom in 195 countries and 15 territories during calendar year 2021. Each country and territory is assigned between 0 and 4 points on a series of 25 indicators, for an aggregate score of up to 100. The indicators are grouped into the categories of political rights (0–40) and civil liberties (0–60), whose totals are weighted equally to determine whether the country or territory has an overall status of Free, Partly Free, or Not Free.

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