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Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025

2025, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's measure of freedom of peaceful assembly asks how far the authorities allow and protect people's right to gather in public for a shared purpose, from almost always to never — the last where the state is willing to use lethal force to stop them. It is an expert-coded estimate on an open-ended scale centred near zero, and a higher figure means the right is better respected.

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025 covers 172 countries. Sweden is highest, at 3.486; Belarus is lowest, at -3.344. The middle country reads 0.756. Against 2024, 86 values changed (38 up, 48 down), 3 left.

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Freedom of Peaceful Assembly · Data for 2025

HighestSweden

3.486

LowestBelarus

-3.344

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.486
2PolandPOLEastern Europe3.158
3CzechiaCZEEastern Europe3.142
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.960
5TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2.944
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe2.897
7JamaicaJAMCaribbean2.878
8MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.848
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.829
10UruguayURYSouth America2.824
11MaltaMLTSouthern Europe2.769
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.743
13SpainESPSouthern Europe2.699
14South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa2.697
15LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.696
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.615
17MontenegroMNESouthern Europe2.543
18South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.542
=19Costa RicaCRICentral America2.513
=19Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.513
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.511
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.482
23SeychellesSYCEastern Africa2.459
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe2.458
=25IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.448

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sweden3.486
  2. 2Poland3.158
  3. 3Czechia3.142
  4. 4Estonia2.960
  5. 5Taiwan2.944

Lowest

  1. 172Belarus-3.344
  2. 171North Korea-3.143
  3. 170Eritrea-2.898
  4. 169Afghanistan-2.822
  5. 168Myanmar-2.756

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.756. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −3countries joined / left
  • 86values changed, of 172 in both
  • 38 · 48rose · fell
  • 86unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Mali0.138 → -1.425−1.563
  • Guyana2.536 → 1.008−1.528
  • Iran-0.818 → -2.150−1.332
  • Niger0.550 → -0.701−1.251
  • Finland2.635 → 1.491−1.144
− Barbados− Algeria− Somaliland

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2025.

  • 168 distinct values among 172

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.513. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 172 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2025). Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/freedom-of-assembly/2025

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