India Ranks 111 in Human Freedom Index 2020; New Zealand Tops

India has been ranked at the 111th spot out of 162 countries in the Human Freedom Index 2020. In 2019, India was ranked 94 on the index.
The overall human freedom score of India in 2020 was 6.43.
New Zealand (8.87), Switzerland (8.82) and Hong Kong (8.74) has bagged the first three spots.
Syrian Arab Republic is the last ranked country with the human freedom score of 3.97 out of 10.

Human Freedom Index 2020

The Human Freedom Index is published by American think tank Cato Institute and Fraser Institute in Canada.
The index ranks a country based on the civil, economic and personal freedom, enjoyed by the resident of that country.
It has taken into account 76 indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedoms to rank 162 countries.
These indicators are grouped in 12 major parameters.
The 2020 Index has taken into account the data from 2008 to 2018.
The countries get score on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 represents more freedom.

HFI 2020