[lbo-talk] Human Freedom Index

[Doug Henwood]

The 1991 Human Development Report <http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/ 
1991/en/pdf/hdr_1991_ch1.pdf> came up with a Human Freedom Index,  
based on countries' performance on some 40 measures of personal  
freedom. The rankings of those in the top group, "high freedom":

  1 Sweden

  2 Denmark

  3 Netherlands

  4 Finland

  5 New Zealand

  6 Austria

  7 Norway

  8 France

  9 Germany
10 Belgium
11 Canada
12 Switzerland
13 USA
14 Australia
15 Japan
16 UK
17 Greece
18 Costa Rica

With the exception of NZ, the Anglo-Saxon "liberal" countries are not  
at the top of this list.