Freedom in Countries Which the US Deals With in the Cato Institute Rankings of 2018
In the US dealing with various countries around the world, it is nice, but simple, to have a Freedom Ranking and evaluations to inform us what kind of country we are dealing with. We present here the countries that are often in the US news. The latest data included is from 2016, so this precedes the Trump Presidency.
The countries are ranked by Human Freedom. They also give scores for Personal Freedom and Economic Freedom. Repeated numbers are ties, and I did not note other ties. I didn’t see a ranking for North Korea. In the Wikipedia Democratic Index it is rated last. They also did not rank Afghanistan.
Top Rated Countries
| Rank | Country | Personal | Economic | Human |
| 5 | Canada | 9.15 | 7.98 | 8.57 |
| 8 | UK | 9.00 | 8.00 | 8..50 |
| 13 | Germany | 9.24 | 7.69 | 8.46 |
| 17 | US | 8.75 | 8.03 | 8.39 |
| 27 | S. Korea | 8.77 | 7.53 | 8.15 |
| 31 | Japan | 8.73 | 7.47 | 8.10 |
| 32 | France | 8.77 | 7.25 | 8.01 |
| 49 | Israel | 7.54 | 7.49 | 7.52 |
| 73 | Philippines | 6.50 | 7.34 | 6.92 |
Medium Rated Countries
| 75 | Jordan | 6.24 | 7.46 | 6.85 |
| 75 | Mexico | 6.80 | 6.90 | 6.85 |
| 92 | Honduras | 6.39 | 7.06 | 6.72 |
| 103 | Qatar | 5.53 | 7.49 | 6.51 |
| 107 | Turkey | 6.09 | 6.84 | 6.47 |
| 110 | India | 6.20 | 6.63 | 6.41 |
| 117 | UAE | 5.07 | 7.50 | 6.29 |
| 118 | Ukraine | 6.59 | 5.98 | 6.28 |
| 119 | Russia | 5.71 | 6.83 | 6.27 |
| 123 | Brazil | 6.67 | 5.75 | 6.21 |
| 124 | Vietnam | 5.97 | 6.42 | 6.19 |
| 124 | Kuwait | 5.63 | 6.75 | 6.19 |
Lower Rated Countries
| 135 | China | 5.35 | 6.46 | 5.91 |
| 140 | Pakistan | 5.32 | 6.00 | 5.66 |
| 146 | Saudi Arab | 4.44 | 6.52 | 5.48 |
| 153 | Iran | 4.53 | 6.03 | 5.28 |
| 156 | Egypt | 3.89 | 5.72 | 4.81 |
| 158 | Libya | 3.88 | 4.74 | 4.31 |
| 159 | Iraq | 3.12 | 5.40 | 4.26 |
| 160 | Yemen | 2.17 | 6.34 | 4.25 |
| 161 | Venezuela | 5.52 | 2.88 | 4.20 |
| 162 | Syria | 2.51 | 5.02 | 3.77 |
