Freedom House
The 2023 edition of Freedom in the World is the 50th in this series of annual comparative reports. More than anything else, five decades of Freedom in the World reports demonstrate that the demand for freedom is universal.

Freedom in the World, the oldest and most trusted report of its kind, evaluates the condition of freedom in 210 countries and territories; among this year's findings, global freedom declined for the 17th consecutive year, but the struggle for democracy may be approaching a turning point.
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