Variable: Economic Freedom of the World Index (current)

QoG Code: (fi_index)


Dataset: Economic Freedom of the World Dataset

Description:

The index is founded upon objective components that reflect the presence (or absence) of economic freedom. The index comprises 21 components designed to identify the consistency of institutional arrangements and policies with economic freedom in five major areas: size of government (fi_sog), legal structure and security of property rights (fi_legprop), access to sound money (fi_sm), freedom to trade internationally (fi_ftradeint), regulation of credit, labor and business (fi_reg). The index ranges from 0-10 where 0 corresponds to less economic freedom'' and 10 tomore economic freedom''. This is the version of the index published at the current year of measurement, without taking methodological changes over time into account.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-21
Last updated by source: 2023-09-19


Categories:

Private Economy


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2024 Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 163
Basic time-series: 168
Standard cross-section: 163
Standard time-series: 168
OECD cross-section: 38
OECD time-series: 39

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1970-2021
Basic time-series: 1970-2021
OECD time-series: 1970-2021

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