Freedom on the Net: Obstacles to Access

QoG code: fhn_fotnota

Obstacles to Access: Details infrastructural and economic barriers to access, legal and ownership control over internet service providers, and independence of regulatory bodies. The score goes from 0 to 100, where 100 represents worst outcomes.

Please note that the values have changed from previous versions of QoG data given that Freedom House now provides a document with the vlaues for all years and these are different for the first years of the score.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2026-01-26
Last updated by source
2025-11-13

Categories

Media
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 72
Standard time-series 72
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2010-2024

Country coverage

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  • Angola
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • France (1963-)
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, South
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Libya
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia (1966-)
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uzbekistan
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2010 to 2024.