Economic Freedom of The World 2000

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This chapter presents detailed data on the economic freedom of the countries included in this study. For each country, we present the overall score of economic freedom and the rank of that country for the years 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, and 1997 (where enough data exists.) Like all the scores in the index, these are values out of 10; 10 is the highest possible score and zero (0) is the lowest. To see how these scores were derived, please refer to the section, Methodology of the Index.

Under the column, Components of Economic Freedom, the titles in bold-face indicate the seven areas of economic freedom that are combined to generate an overall score. Each of the rows in bold-face gives the scores (out of 10) for that particular area for each year. Appendix 1 shows the ratings for each of the seven areas that combine to form the overall summary ratings for the period from 1990 to 1997.

Underneath each area title are the titles of the components that are combined to generate that particular area's score. Beside these titles are the scores (out of 10) for each year for which we have data. In parentheses beside some scores is the actual data used to derive that particular score.

A more complete description of each component can be found in Appendix 2: Explanatory Notes and Data Sources. The full data-set is available on-line at /www.freetheworld.com/download.html.

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