Freedom on the Net: Score

QoG code: fhn_fotnsc

Freedom on the Net, Score: Measures the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that governments and non-state actors around the world restrict our intrinsic rights online by looking at Obstacles to Access, Limits on Content and Violations of User Rights. The scores are based on a scale of 0 to 100 with 0 representing the best level of freedom on the net progress and 100 the worst.

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
Basic cross-section 72
Basic time-series 72
Standard cross-section 72
Standard time-series 72
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2010-2024
Basic 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.