Freedom of Expression and Alternative Sources of Information Index, 2024

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Freedom of Expression and Alternative Sources of Information Index, 2024: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.

Positionderived	Country	Freedom of expression and alternative sources of information (0–1)
1	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	0.985
2	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.974
=3	BelgiumBELWestern Europe	0.969
=3	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	0.969
5	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	0.967
6	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	0.960
7	FranceFRAWestern Europe	0.959
8	LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	0.957
=9	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	0.950
=9	New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.950
11	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.948
12	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	0.946
13	CanadaCANNorthern America	0.941
14	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	0.933
15	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	0.932
16	ChileCHLSouth America	0.928
=17	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.923
=17	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	0.923
=17	BrazilBRASouth America	0.923
=20	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	0.920
=20	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.920
22	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.919
=23	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.915
=23	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	0.915
25	UruguayURYSouth America	0.913

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.726. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 153values changed, of 176 in both
• 64 · 89rose · fell
• 23unchanged

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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  V-Dem Institute’s own file, on its own site.

  V-Dem-CY-Core-v16_csv.zip

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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