America likes to paint itself as the Land of The Free, they even have it in their National Anthem but the Human Freedom Index Report by the Cato Institute doesn’t seem to agree, ranking the United States as 17th most free so who should be singing about being the land of the free instead?
Using a combination of the freedom of an individual to have freedom of opinion and expression, equality before the courts, security of private property, and freedom to come and go as well as economic liberty and the freedom to prosper in a country without intervention from the government or economic authority, the real land of the free is New Zealand then Switzerland, Hong Kong, Australia and Canada.
The United Kingdom is joint 8th with Ireland and oh, i can you see by the dawn’s early light that the USA and Sweden are in joint 17th place so the National Anthem may be due a bit of a rewrite, the land of the just in the Top 20 Free perhaps.
Towards the bottom end of the 160 county Freedom league we find the nations we would expect to see there, Bahrain (75), Qatar (103), UAE (117), Russia (119), Kuwait (124), China (135), Saudi Arabia (146), Iran (153) and the least free are the citizens in Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Egypt.
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