Economic Freedom by Region with Population
Created on January 19, 2012
= 500 million people
Circle sizes are relative to region’s population
Index of Economic Freedom Score
North America 73.8
Europe 66.1
South and Central America/ Caribbean 60.0
Middle East/North Africa 59.9
Asia-Pacific 57.5
Sub-Saharan Africa 53.7
443 million
813 million
334 million
460 million
3.7 billion
768 million
443 million
813 million
3.7 billion
768 million
Sources: Terry Miller, Kim R. Holmes, and Edwin J. Feulner, 2012 Index of Economic Freedom (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation and Dow Jones & Company, Inc., 2012), at www.heritage.org/index, and International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Databases, at http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28 (November 21, 2011).
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