[lbo-talk] Human Freedom Index

[John Thornton]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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.

But where's Iran? They give out free condom's and teach people about 
women's orgasms. Surely that counts for something?

John Thornton