We should add a paragraph of copy here, that explains this page and why it's important. Also, some kind of link to the section on the site that explains the rankings.
![We Demand Voting Rights March](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/we-demand-voting-rights.jpg?itok=J6aT3Pb8)
Azerbaijan Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 0/40 | Civil Liberties: 7/60
Azerbaijan lies at the crossroads between Europe and Asia - with Russia to the north, Iran to the south and Georgia and Armenia to the northwest and west.
![Campaign posters for a 2008 plebiscite on Evo Morales’s presidency](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/si-to-evo-and-the-new-constitution.jpg?itok=cBtazDdR)
Bolivia Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 27/40 | Civil Liberties: 39/60
Bolivia has had 40 years of civilian rule but faces significant challenges following a political crisis in 2019-20.
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Botswana Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 28/40 | Civil Liberties: 44/60
Botswana is Africa’s oldest continuous multiparty democracy, having held uninterrupted free elections since gaining independence in 1966.
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Chile Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 56/60
Chile, a country that spans a long length of territory on the Pacific Coast of South America, is a unitary presidential republic.
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China Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: -2/40 | Civil Liberties: 11/60
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China Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: -2/40 | Civil Liberties: 11/60
The People’s Republic of China is a unitary republic and one-party dictatorship. Freedom in the World has categorized the country as “not free” since the first survey in 1973 and today it ranks among teh least free nations.
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Cuba Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 1/40 | Civil Liberties: 11/60
Cuba is a unitary republic with a one-party dictatorship. Cuba has been ranked “not free” in all of Freedom House’s world surveys since 1973.
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Estonia Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 57/60
Estonia, among the world’s most free and economically dynamic countries, has a parliamentary system with a unicameral legislature.
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France Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 38/40 | Civil Liberties: 51/60
France has a mixed presidential-parliamentary government. Its history encompasses periods of absolutism, revolution, empire, constitutional monarchy and republicanism.
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Germany Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 54/60
The Federal Republic of Germany has a parliamentary democracy and a federal state, and has become one of the freer nations in the world.
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Guatemala Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 17/40 | Civil Liberties: 29/60
Guatemala has had democratic elections since 1985 but struggled to overcome a legacy of military rule, corrupt government and poverty.
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Indonesia Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 28/40 | Civil Liberties: 29/60
Indonesia is an archipelago nation between the Asian and Australian continents with, since 1998, a mixed presidential-parliamentary system with free, fair and regular elections.
![Protestors take part during a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels, Belgium on Sept. 23, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/shutterstock_2205708751.jpg?itok=5-4_K9kS)
Iran Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 4/40 | Civil Liberties: 7/60
The territory of Iran, previously known as Persia, was ruled by monarchical dynasties or occupied and dominated by foreign powers for nearly all of its recorded history.
![2019 Meeting of the Israeli Knesset](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/shutterstock_1521514619.jpg?itok=8P2gyAUJ)
Israel Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 34/40 | Civil Liberties: 43/60
Israel's multiparty system is highly diverse, including representation for minority populations. But in recent years Israel’s democracy has faced a range of challenges.
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Kazakhstan Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 5/40 | Civil Liberties: 18/60
Kazakhstan is a presidential republic in Central Asia. Since its independence in 1991, Kazakhstan has not had democratic governance.
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Kenya Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 22/40 | Civil Liberties: 30/60
Kenya is a presidential republic on the central eastern coast of Africa. Its mixed economy, once a model for Africa, today has high levels of poverty and corruption.
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Malaysia Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 22/40 | Civil Liberties: 31/60
The Federation of Malaysia, consisting of two territories separated by the South China Sea, is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government.
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Morocco Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 13/40 | Civil Liberties: 24/60
The Kingdom of Morocco, located on the northwestern coast of Africa, is a semi-constitutional monarchy with a limited unitary parliamentary system.
![William of Orange III and his Dutch army land in Brixham](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/william-of-orange-lands-in-brixham-1688.jpg?itok=gKliZxle)
Netherlands Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 58/60
Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy with unitary structure.
![William of Orange III and his Dutch army land in Brixham](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/william-of-orange-lands-in-brixham-1688.jpg?itok=gKliZxle)
Netherlands Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 39/40 | Civil Liberties: 58/60
The Netherlands has a long history of free media, free political debate, free and fair elections and pluralist political competition. That tradition continues.
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Nigeria Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 20/40 | Civil Liberties: 24/60
Nigeria, on the east coast of Africa, is a federal republic with a mixed presidential-parliamentary system.
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North Korea Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 0/40 | Civil Liberties: 3/60
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a unitary republic with a highly repressive one-party dictatorship and among the worst violators of human rights.
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Philippines Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 25/40 | Civil Liberties: 33/60
The Philippines is a constitutional republic with a presidential system. Democracy was restored in 1986, but recent presidents have eroded human rights and rule of law.
![Political poster featuring Gary Cooper to encourage votes for the Solidarity party in the 1989 Polish elections. Tomasz Sarneck, 1989](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/solidarnosc-hero-image.jpg?itok=kxfupxv0)
Poland Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 47/60
Since 1989, Poland has been a free and sovereign country following more than two centuries of foreign domination, occupation, and control.
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Saudi Arabia Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 1/40 | Civil Liberties: 7/60
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy and Islamic state, and is ranked among the “worst of the worst” dictatorships in the Freedom in the World report.
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Singapore Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 19/40 | Civil Liberties: 29/60
Singapore, an island city-state with a parliamentary republic and authoritarian governance. Freedom House consistently categorizes the country as “partly free.”
![Youth demonstration in South Africa](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/people-waving-south-african-flags-279017753.jpg?itok=-09GmTNK)
South Africa Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 46/60
South Africa is a constitutional republic and parliamentary democracy whose president is chosen by the National Assembly, the popularly elected lower house of a bicameral legislature.
![Supporters of the Alliance of Sudanese Political Forces (ASPF) protest in front of 10 Downing Street, London](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/shutterstock_2067028238.jpg?itok=5pqKA2wt)
Sudan Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 0/40 | Civil Liberties: 10/60
Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has endured numerous civil wars and been governed mostly by military dictatorships.
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Syria Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: -3/40 | Civil Liberties: 4/60
Syria, a constitutional republic located in the Middle East, is among the world’s most repressive dictatorships.
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Tunisia Country Study
Status: Partly Free
| Political Rights: 16/40 | Civil Liberties: 35/60
Tunisia, a North African country on the Mediterranean Sea, is now a presidential republic following a staged constitutional referendum in 2022.
![Tens of thousands protested the demolition of Gezi Park in Istanbul’s Taksim Square in 2013](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/2013-taksim-gezi-park-protests.jpg?itok=9neU5Jx3)
Turkey Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 16/40 | Civil Liberties: 16/60
Turkey has a presidential-parliamentary system, now with dominant executive powers following a controversial 2017 referendum.
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Uganda Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 10/40 | Civil Liberties: 24/60
Uganda is a unitary republic with a presidential system. The current president came to power in 1986 and has governed in largely authoritarian manner.
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United States of America Country Study
Status: Free
| Political Rights: 33/40 | Civil Liberties: 50/60
The United States is a constitutional republic with a presidential system. It is the world's oldest representative democracy among nation states.
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Uzbekistan Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 2/40 | Civil Liberties: 10/60
Uzbekistan is a nation in Central Asia with a mixed presidential-parliamentary system, but in practice is a consolidated dictatorship.
![Venezuelans wait in long lines to familiarize themselves with the new voting machines to elect the new national assembly on December 6, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_teaser/public/images/hero/venezuelans-wait-in-long-lines.jpg?itok=6p5SOzay)
Venezuela Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 1/40 | Civil Liberties: 14/60
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has a dominant presidential system and authoritarian government.
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Vietnam Country Study
Status: Not Free
| Political Rights: 4/40 | Civil Liberties: 15/60
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a unitary republic and one-party dictatorship. Since 1975, Freedom in the World has categorized the united country as “not free.”