Quantifying Freedom

Freedom House, a group that promotes democracy, ranks each country's political freedoms and civil liberties in an annual survey. During 2005, nine countries or territories were upgraded and four were downgraded, making it "one of the most successful for freedom" since the survey was begun in 1972.

Quantifying Freedom

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