The 2006 State of World Liberty Index ranks countries from most to least libertarian by compiling information from four freedom indices into one single index. The indices used were:
The 159 included countries were broken into three criteria: individual freedom, economic freedom and government size/taxation and averaged. View the methodology page to see a breakdown of how this was done. Also, the data has been included in Microsoft Excel format. We will put up a .pdf version of the data as soon as possible.
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