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March 11th, 2006 by JTJ

The Canadian Cartographic Association today points us to another interesting application of data collecting, analysis and charting. See: http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/index-of-economic-freedom.html

Index of Economic Freedom

Published Friday, March 10, 2006 by CCAer | E-mail this post

The
Index of Economic Freedom has been published every year for the past 12
years. It assesses each country’s economic freedom by evaluating a
country’s performance on a number of factors, including trade policy,
fiscal burden, government intervention, monetary policy and property
rights, among others. Using the latest results (available in Excel format), the index creators have also put together a map of the world (also in pdf format) that provides a quick overview of economic freedom throughout the world. Also interesting to view is a chart showing the correlation of per capita income and economic freedom. Individual country reports / analysis are also available.

The complete report, along with the methodology and process used, is available for download.