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Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021

2021, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021 covers 176 countries. Greece is highest, at 2.936; North Korea is lowest, at -3.642. The middle country reads 1.098. Against 2020, 82 values changed (39 up, 43 down), the same countries are covered.

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Freedom of Foreign Movement · Data for 2021

HighestGreece

2.936

LowestNorth Korea

-3.642

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe2.936
2GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.727
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe2.486
4Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa2.471
5EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.416
6Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.396
7BarbadosBRBCaribbean2.369
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa2.345
9GambiaGMBWestern Africa2.330
10EcuadorECUSouth America2.299
11MaltaMLTSouthern Europe2.284
12Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe2.283
13FranceFRAWestern Europe2.268
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.265
15SenegalSENWestern Africa2.253
16UruguayURYSouth America2.242
17Costa RicaCRICentral America2.233
18CanadaCANNorthern America2.219
19BulgariaBGREastern Europe2.201
20MontenegroMNESouthern Europe2.159
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.155
22São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.154
23MalawiMWIEastern Africa2.126
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.125
25BotswanaBWASouthern Africa2.063

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Greece2.936
  2. 2Germany2.727
  3. 3Albania2.486
  4. 4Cabo Verde2.471
  5. 5Estonia2.416

Lowest

  1. 176North Korea-3.642
  2. 175Eritrea-2.850
  3. 174Belarus-2.438
  4. 173Turkmenistan-2.301
  5. 172Nicaragua-1.625

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1.098. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 82values changed, of 176 in both
  • 39 · 43rose · fell
  • 94unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.

  • 173 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.264. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2021). Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/freedom-of-foreign-movement/2021

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07Questions

Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest freedom of foreign travel in Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021?

Greece, at 2.936, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021 cover?

176.

Where can I download Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Freedom of Foreign Movement, 2025.

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