Today’s post is just a little scatter plot today of my own creation. I was interested to see which countries fall outside the mainstream when it comes to economic and political freedom, as measured by the Heritage Foundation and Freedom House, respectively.
Those are certainly not the only indices that I could have chosen, however, they were admittedly the easiest to find and use. Despite the fact the one dataset still contained data on such mythical places as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and the Soviet Union.
That all said, my apologies for the graphics not quite being super clean. I am working on some new things and so this post is at best only a partially successful experiment.
Freedom and Liberty
Economic Freedom
100
Both Economically and Politically Free
Economically Free but Politically Not
Singapore
New Zealand
Switzerland
80
Australia
Bahrain
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
60
Micronesia
Ukraine
Kiribati
Argentina
40
Zimbabwe
Venezuela
Cuba
20
Neither Economically nor Politically Free
Politically Free but Not Economically
North Korea
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Political Freedom
Sources
Heritage Foundation
Freedom House
Brendan Barry
brendanbarry.com
coffeespoons.me
brendan.barry@gmx.com
