Freedom of Expression and Alternative Sources of Information Index, 2025

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Freedom of Expression and Alternative Sources of Information Index, 2025: 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	0.980
2	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.970
=3	BelgiumBELWestern Europe	0.969
=3	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	0.969
5	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	0.967
6	FranceFRAWestern Europe	0.959
7	LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	0.957
8	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.953
9	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	0.947
=10	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	0.946
=10	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	0.946
=12	CanadaCANNorthern America	0.933
=12	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	0.933
14	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	0.932
15	UruguayURYSouth America	0.931
16	New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.927
17	ChileCHLSouth America	0.926
18	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.919
19	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	0.918
=20	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	0.917
=20	PolandPOLEastern Europe	0.917
=22	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.915
=22	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.915
24	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.914
25	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	0.911

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.693. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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• 150values changed, of 176 in both
• 58 · 92rose · fell
• 26unchanged

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-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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