Human Freedom Index 2020

The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom in which placed India at the 111th spot out of 162 countries. India ranked 94 on the index in 2019.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

India’s scored 6.30 out of 10 in personal freedom and 6.56 in economic freedom. The country’s overall human freedom score was 6.43.

New Zealand, Switzerland and Hong Kong bagged the first three spots.

The United States and United Kingdom are tied at the 17th spot on the index. War-torn Syria ranked the last on the list.

The index put China at 129 rank, Bangladesh at 139 and Pakistan at 140.

The index was published by American think tank Cato Institute and Fraser Institute in Canada. Fred McMahon and Ian Vásquez are the authors of the report.

It takes into account 76 indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedoms to rank 162 countries from 2008 to 2018.

The institutes noted that the world has seen a notable decline in personal freedom since 2008.