The human rights organization Freedom House published its ranking “Freedom in the World 2018” evaluating the state of freedom in various countries.
Political rights and liberties are taken into account when awarding the scores.The organization uses a detailed assessment methodology.
The political rights and freedoms score is assessed based on 76 indicators, which take the form of questions, including on electoral process and transparency of public bureaucracy.Civil rights and liberties, including participation of residents in the country’s economy or functioning of justice system are also assessed in great detail.
The countries reviewed in the ratings have been divided into three categories: free, partly free and not free.
Turkmenistan, with an aggregate score of 4 out of maximum 100, is qualified as “not free”.
With regard to democracy freedoms the situation in the following countries is worse than in Turkmenistan North Korea (score of 3), Eritrea (3), Southern Sudan (2), Tibet (1) and Syria (1).
The following countries represent the greatest degree of freedom Finland (score of 100), Norway (100), Sweden (100), Canada (99) and Netherlands (99).