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Political rights rating (1-7)

Name: Political rights rating (1-7) by country, 2024
Creator: Freedom House, Freedom in the World
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rating 1-7 · lower is better · 193 countries

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192 countries · 2024

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Political rights rating (1-7) league table
#	Country	rating 1-7	Region	Income
1	Marshall Islands	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
2	Dominica	1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
3	Japan	1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
4	United Kingdom	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
5	Italy	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
6	Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
7	Denmark	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
8	Germany	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
9	Grenada	1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
10	Iceland	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
11	Canada	1	North America	High income
12	France	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
13	Cyprus	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
14	Uruguay	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
15	Palau	1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
16	Sweden	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
17	Barbados	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
18	Switzerland	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
19	San Marino	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
20	Latvia	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
21	Austria	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
22	Andorra	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
23	Slovenia	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
24	Ireland	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
25	Luxembourg	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
26	Kiribati	1	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
27	Mongolia	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
28	Slovak Republic	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
29	Chile	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
30	Finland	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
31	Australia	1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
32	Costa Rica	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
33	Tuvalu	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
34	Lithuania	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
35	Cabo Verde	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
36	Taiwan	1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
37	Norway	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
38	New Zealand	1	East Asia & Pacific	High income
39	Bahamas, The	1	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
40	St. Lucia	1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
41	Estonia	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
42	Spain	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
43	Netherlands	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
44	Portugal	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
45	Belgium	1	Europe & Central Asia	High income
46	Antigua and Barbuda	2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
47	Korea, Rep.	2	East Asia & Pacific	High income
48	Greece	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
49	Naoero	2	East Asia & Pacific	High income
50	Argentina	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
51	Suriname	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
52	Colombia	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
53	Samoa	2	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
54	Brazil	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
55	Panama	2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
56	India	2	South Asia	Lower middle income
57	Belize	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
58	Bulgaria	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
59	Trinidad and Tobago	2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
60	Liberia	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
61	Tonga	2	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
62	Ghana	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
63	Malta	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
64	Liechtenstein	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
65	Guyana	2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
66	Timor-Leste	2	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
67	Romania	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
68	Jamaica	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
69	Namibia	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
70	Bhutan	2	South Asia	Lower middle income
71	Seychelles	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	High income
72	Vanuatu	2	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
73	Poland	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
74	Israel	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
75	South Africa	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
76	Croatia	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
77	Mauritius	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
78	Sao Tome and Principe	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
79	Lesotho	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
80	Moldova	3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
81	Hungary	3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
82	Indonesia	3	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
83	Fiji	3	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
84	Ecuador	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
85	Monaco	3	Europe & Central Asia	High income
86	Dominican Republic	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
87	Madagascar	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
88	Mexico	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
89	North Macedonia	3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
90	Montenegro	3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
91	Malawi	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
92	Nepal	3	South Asia	Lower middle income
93	Peru	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
94	Philippines	3	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
95	Botswana	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
96	Paraguay	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
97	Senegal	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
98	Bolivia	3	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
99	Solomon Islands	3	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
100	Sierra Leone	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
101	Albania	3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
102	Kosovo	3	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
103	Armenia	4	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
104	Cote d'Ivoire	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
105	Papua New Guinea	4	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
106	Honduras	4	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
107	Gambia, The	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
108	Georgia	4	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
109	Benin	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
110	Zambia	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
111	Kenya	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
112	Sri Lanka	4	South Asia	Upper middle income
113	Maldives	4	South Asia	Upper middle income
114	Serbia	4	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
115	El Salvador	4	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
116	Singapore	4	East Asia & Pacific	High income
117	Malaysia	4	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
118	Ukraine	4	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
119	Nigeria	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
120	Kuwait	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
121	Tanzania	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
122	Lebanon	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
123	Pakistan	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
124	Mauritania	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
125	Bangladesh	5	South Asia	Lower middle income
126	Turkiye	5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
127	Tunisia	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
128	Guinea-Bissau	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
129	Morocco	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
130	Iraq	5	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
131	Guatemala	5	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
132	Thailand	5	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
133	Togo	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
134	Comoros	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
136	Mozambique	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
137	Zimbabwe	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
138	Uganda	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
139	Rwanda	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
140	Brunei Darussalam	6	East Asia & Pacific	High income
141	Qatar	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
142	Angola	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
143	Oman	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
144	Cameroon	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
145	Niger	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
146	Mali	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
147	Algeria	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
148	Egypt, Arab Rep.	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
149	Ethiopia	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
150	Jordan	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
151	Guinea	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
152	Haiti	6	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
153	Hong Kong SAR, China	6	East Asia & Pacific	High income
154	Saudi Arabia	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
155	Sudan	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
156	Yemen, Rep.	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
157	Belarus	7	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
158	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
159	Cuba	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
160	Myanmar	7	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
161	Iran, Islamic Rep.	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
162	Djibouti	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
163	South Sudan	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
164	United Arab Emirates	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
165	Bahrain	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
166	Equatorial Guinea	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
167	Turkmenistan	7	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
168	Eswatini	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
169	Afghanistan	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
170	Eritrea	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
171	Libya	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
172	Uzbekistan	7	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
173	Lao PDR	7	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
174	Azerbaijan	7	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
175	Burkina Faso	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
176	Cambodia	7	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
177	Kyrgyz Republic	7	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
178	Syrian Arab Republic	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
179	Kazakhstan	7	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
180	Chad	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
181	Central African Republic	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
182	China	7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
183	Venezuela, RB	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
184	Viet Nam	7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
185	Gabon	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
186	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	7	East Asia & Pacific	Low income
187	Tajikistan	7	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
188	Congo, Dem. Rep.	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
189	Nicaragua	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
190	Congo, Rep.	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
191	Russian Federation	7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
192	Burundi	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income

Political rights rating (1-7)