Qatar: overall score on the Economic Freedom Index 2018

This statistic describes the overall score of Qatar on the Economic Freedom Index ranking from 2000 to 2018. According to the 2018 ranking, Qatar scored overall on the Economic Freedom index 60.7 compared to the world average is 72.6. Qatar is considered in this regard mostly free.

Overall score of Qatar on the Economic Freedom Index ranking from 2000 to 2018

Characteristic	Qatar	World average
2018	72.6	77.6
2017	73.1	76.9
2016	70.7	72.6
2015	70.8	72.4
2014	71.2	71.4
2013	71.3	71.1
2012	71.3	69.3
2011	70.5	67.8
2010	69	67.3
2005	63.5	65.2
2000	62	74.2

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Release date

January 2018

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Region

Qatar, MENA

Survey time period

2000 to 2018

Supplementary notes

The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual ranking by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom of countries. Since 1995 the authors of the index took an approach aligned to Adam Smith's in The Wealth of Nations.

The 2018 ranking has main categories with total twelve sub-categories:
Rule of law sub-categories: Property rights, Judicial effectiveness, Government integrity
Government size sub-categories: Tax burden, Government spending, Fiscal health
Regulatory efficiency sub-categories: Business freedom, Labor freedom, Monetary freedom
Market openness sub-categories: Trade freedom, Investment freedom, 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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