Index of Economic Freedom

How to evaluate the state of economic freedom around the world?

To help answer this complex question, we used the data compiled by the The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation for their Index of Economic Freedom, and created a dataset than can directly be loaded into InfoScope. The Index covers 10 freedoms – from property rights to entrepreneurship – in 161 countries, available over time from 1995 to 2007.

Index of Economic Freedom 2007 – MIS-File, 658.0 KB

(Please download InfoScope to analyze this dataset, it is free)

Source: Tim Kane, Kim Holmes, and Mary Anastasia O'Grady, 2007 Index of Economic Freedom (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 2007), at www.heritage.org/research/features/index/

March 2, 2007

The 2007 version dataset is now available.

Online Java applet version

If a recent version of Java is properly installed on your system, you can visualize this dataset online using the applet version of InfoScope. Otherwise please download InfoScope and use it to open the dataset at the bottom of this page.