The Human Freedom Index 2017

The rule of law outlines the categories and the components and security are essential to provide reason- in each category of the personal freedom and able assurance that life is protected. [...] What follows is a of the average of three indicators measuring ” brief description and justification of the data “the right to life and security” of a person, we use in the personal freedom subindex, as “due process of law and rights of the accused,” well as a summary of the economic freedom and “freedom from arbitrary interference indicators that make up the rest of the Human with privacy.” The f [...] The second indicator refers The rule of law is an essential condition to such issues as the extent to which police of freedom that protects the individual from or the authorities respect the presumption coercion by others. [...] This category is made of freedom of expression as use of the internet up of three components: freedom of asso- spreads and government efforts to control it ciation, freedom of assembly, and freedom to become more sophisticated and frequent. [...] A complete description of the FINdINgs economic freedom structure and index meth- Table 2 presents the ratings and rankings odology can be found in the Fraser Institute’s of countries on the overall Human Freedom Economic Freedom of the World annual reports.