PROMOTING Economic Opportunity & Prosperity

The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom

covers 183 countries across 10 specific freedoms such as trade freedom, business freedom, investment freedom, and property rights.

world rank	country	index year	overall score	change from previous	business freedom	trade freedom	fiscal freedom	government    size
1	Hong Kong	2011	89.7	0	98.7	90	93.3	89.6
2	Singapore	2011	87.2	1.1	98.2	90	91.1	91.3
3	Australia	2011	82.5	-0.1	90.1	84.4	61.3	64.7
4	New Zealand	2011	82.3	0.2	99.9	86.6	64.7	49.3
5	Switzerland	2011	81.9	0.8	80.2	90	68.4	69.3
6	Canada	2011	80.8	0.4	96.4	88.1	78	52.7
7	Ireland	2011	78.7	-2.6	92	87.6	72.1	47.1
8	Denmark	2011	78.6	0.7	99.7	87.6	43.2	19.5
9	United States	2011	77.8	-0.2	91	86.4	68.3	54.6
10	Bahrain	2011	77.7	1.4	77.4	82.8	99.8	80.2

 

									monetary freedom	investment freedom	financial freedom	property rights	freedom from corruption	labor freedom
									87.1	90	90	90	82	86.2
									86.2	75	60	90	92	98
									85	80	90	90	87	92.2
									84.8	80	80	95	94	89.2
									83.8	80	80	90	90	87.8
									78.8	75	80	90	87	81.7
									80.7	90	70	90	80	77.5
									81.4	90	90	90	93	92.1
									77.4	75	70	85	75	95.7
									74	75	80	60	51	97