Index of Economic Freedom 2003-2006

The Index of Economic Freedom 2003-2006 rankings show the historical development of Economic Freedom as gauged annually by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. [cite web
url=http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm
title=Index of Economic Freedom
publisher=The Heritage Foundation
accessdate=2008-03-03]

Current ratings are [http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm available] .

Countries that shared the same rank received a tie score. For example, in 2006 Iceland and the United Kingdom tied for the rank of 5th most economically free country.

*Overall, 99 countries worldwide were freer in 2006 than they were the previous year and 51 are less free. Five countries remained in the same degree of freedom.
*The 10 most-improved countries in 2006 were: Pakistan, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, Suriname, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Turkey, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
*The 10 countries which showed least improvement in 2006 were: Iran, Italy, Guinea, Bolivia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Egypt and Nicaragua.

"Note: Due to economic or political instability, in 2006 the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Somalia and Sudan were not ranked. There was no data for countries with very small populations, including Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Dominica, East Timor, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Micronesia, Monaco, San Marino, Saint Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Vatican City, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Seychelles."

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