Abstract

The Freedom in the World 1972-2010 dataset, produced by a US based organisation, Freedom House, contains data on political rights and civil liberties for countries. Numerical ratings of between 1 and 7 are allocated to each country or territory, with 1 representing the most free and 7 the least free. The status designation of Free, Partly Free, or Not Free, which is determined by the combination of the political rights and civil liberties ratings, indicates the general state of freedom in a country or territory.

The total number of points awarded to the political rights and civil liberties checklists determines the political rights and civil liberties ratings for each country in the Freedom House dataset. Each point total corresponds to a rating of 1 through 7, with 1 representing the highest and 7 the lowest level of freedom. Each pair of political rights and civil liberties ratings is averaged to determine an overall status of "Free," "Partly Free," or "Not Free." Those whose ratings average 1.0 to 2.5 are considered Free, 3.0 to 5.0 Partly Free, and 5.5 to 7.0 Not Free . The designations of Free, Partly Free, and Not Free each cover a broad third of the available raw points. Therefore, countries and territories within any one category, especially those at either end of the category, can have quite different human rights situations. In order to see the distinctions within each category, a country or territory's political rights and civil liberties ratings should be examined. For example, countries at the lowest end of the Free category (2 in political rights and 3 in civil liberties, or 3 in political rights and 2 in civil liberties) differ from those at the upper end of the Free group (1 for both political rights and civil liberties). Also, a designation of Free does not mean that a country enjoys perfect freedom or lacks serious problems, only that it enjoys comparably more freedom than Partly Free or Not Free (or some other Free) countries.

General Characteristics of Each Political Rights and Civil Liberties Rating: Political Rights Rating of 1 -- Countries and territories that receive a rating of 1 for political rights come closest to ensuring the freedoms embodied in the checklist questions, beginning with free and fair elections. Those who are elected rule, there are competitive parties or other political groupings, and the opposition plays an important role and has actual power. Minority groups have reasonable self-government or can participate in the government through informal consensus. Rating of 2 -- Countries and territories rated 2 in political rights are less free than those rated 1. Such factors as political corruption, violence, political discrimination against minorities, and foreign or military influence on politics may be present and weaken the quality of freedom. Ratings of 3, 4, 5 -- The same conditions that undermine freedom in countries and territories with a rating of 2 may also weaken political rights in those with a rating of 3, 4, or 5. Other damaging elements can include civil war, heavy military involvement in politics, lingering royal power, unfair elections, and one-party dominance. However, states and territories in these categories may still enjoy some elements of political rights, including the freedom to organize quasi-political groups, reasonably free referendums, or other significant means of popular influence on government. Rating of 6 -- Countries and territories with political rights rated 6 have systems ruled by military juntas, one-party dictatorships, religious hierarchies, or autocrats. These regimes may allow only a minimal manifestation of political rights, such as some degree of representation or autonomy for minorities. A few states are traditional monarchies that mitigate their relative lack of political rights through the use of consultation with their subjects, tolerance of political discussion, and acceptance of public petitions. Rating of 7 -- For countries and territories with a rating of 7, political rights are absent or virtually nonexistent as a result of the extremely oppressive nature of the regime or severe oppression in combination with civil war. States and territories in this group may also be marked by extreme violence or warlord rule that dominates political power in the absence of an authoritative, functioning central government. Civil Liberties Rating of 1 -- Countries and territories that receive a rating of 1 come closest to ensuring the freedoms expressed in the civil liberties checklist, including freedom of expression, assembly, association, education, and religion. They are distinguished by an established and generally equitable system of rule of law. Countries and territories with this rating enjoy free economic activity and tend to strive for equality of opportunity. Rating of 2 -- States and territories with a rating of 2 have deficiencies in a few aspects of civil liberties, but are still relatively free. Ratings of 3, 4, 5 -- Countries and territories that have received a rating of 3, 4, or 5 range from those that are in at least partial compliance with virtually all checklist standards to those with a combination of high or medium scores for some questions and low or very low scores on other questions. The level of oppression increases at each successive rating level, including in the areas of censorship, political terror, and the prevention of free association. There are also many cases in which groups opposed to the state engage in political terror that undermines other freedoms. Therefore, a poor rating for a country is not necessarily a comment on the intentions of the government, but may reflect real restrictions on liberty caused by nongovernmental actors. Rating of 6 -- People in countries and territories with a rating of 6 experience severely restricted rights of expression and association, and there are almost always political prisoners and other manifestations of political terror. These countries may be characterized by a few partial rights, such as some religious and social freedoms, some highly restricted private business activity, and relatively free private discussion. Rating of 7 -- States and territories with a rating of 7 have virtually no freedom. An overwhelming and justified fear of repression characterizes these societies. Countries and territories generally have ratings in political rights and civil liberties that are within two ratings numbers of each other. Without a well-developed civil society, it is difficult, if not impossible, to have an atmosphere supportive of political rights. Consequently, there is no country in the survey with a rating of 6 or 7 for civil liberties and, at the same time, a rating of 1 or 2 for political rights.

Analysis unit

The units of analysis in the survey arel countries

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Freedom in the World, produced by Freedom House, is an annual report assessing political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries and 13 territories. It uses numerical ratings and descriptive texts to evaluate real-world rights and freedoms, emphasizing implementation over legal guarantees. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, applying universal standards regardless of geography, ethnicity, or level of economic development.

The average for 2024 based on 176 countries was 70 points. The highest value was in Singapore: 95 points and the lowest value was in North Korea: 0 points. The indicator is available from 1995 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Copy of https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/kisoibo/countries-databasesqlite

Updated the name of the table from 'countries of the world' to 'countries', for ease of writing queries.

Info about the dataset:

Content

Table Total Rows Total Columns countries of the world **0 ** ** 20** Country, Region, Population, Area (sq. mi.), Pop. Density (per sq. mi.), Coastline (coast/area ratio), Net migration, Infant mortality (per 1000 births), GDP ($ per capita), Literacy (%), Phones (per 1000), Arable (%), Crops (%), Other (%), Climate, Birthrate, Deathrate, Agriculture, Industry, Service

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements Source: All these data sets are made up of data from the US government. Generally they are free to use if you use the data in the US. If you are outside of the US, you may need to contact the US Govt to ask. Data from the World Factbook is public domain. The website says "The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission." https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/faqs.html

Inspiration

When making visualisations related to countries, sometimes it is interesting to group them by attributes such as region, or weigh their importance by population, GDP or other variables.

The average for 2024 based on 175 countries was 62 points. The highest value was in Denmark: 93 points and the lowest value was in North Korea: 5 points. The indicator is available from 1995 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

As of March 2025, there were a reported 5,426 data centers in the United States, the most of any country worldwide. A further 529 were located in Germany, while 523 were located in the United Kingdom. What is a data center? A data center is a network of computing and storage resources that enables the delivery of shared software applications and data. These facilities can house large amounts of critical and important data, and therefore are vital to the daily functions of companies and consumers alike. As a result, whether it is a cloud, colocation, or managed service, data center real estate will have increasing importance worldwide. Hyperscale data centers In the past, data centers were highly controlled physical infrastructures, but the cloud has since changed that model. A cloud data service is a remote version of a data center – located somewhere away from a company's physical premises. Cloud IT infrastructure spending has grown and is forecast to rise further in the coming years. The evolution of technology, along with the rapid growth in demand for data across the globe, is largely driven by the leading hyperscale data center providers.

Singapore led the Index of Economic Freedom in 2024, with an index score of 83.5 out of 100. Switzerland, Ireland, Taiwan, and Luxembourg rounded out the top five. Economic Freedom Index In order to calculate the Economic Freedom Index, the source takes 12 different factors into account, including the rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets. All 12 factors are rated on a scale of zero to 100 and are weighted equally. Every country is rated within the Index in order to provide insight into the health and freedom of the global economy. Singapore's economy Singapore is one of the four so-called Asian Tigers, a term used to describe four countries in Asia that saw a booming economic development from the 1950s to the early 1990. Today, the City-State is known for its many skyscrapers, and its economy continue to boom. It has one of the lowest tax-rates in the Asia-Pacific region, and continues to be open towards foreign direct investment (FDI). Moreover, Singapore has one of the highest trade-to-GDP ratios worldwide, underlining its export-oriented economy. Finally, its geographic location has given it a strategic position as a center connecting other countries in the region with the outside world. However, the economic boom has come at a cost, with the city now ranked among the world's most expensive.

World Countries provides a detailed basemap layer for the country boundaries of the world. This layer has been designed to be used as a basemap and includes fields for official names and country codes, along with fields for continent and display. Particularly useful are the fields LAND_TYPE and LAND_RANK that separate polygons based on their size. These fields are helpful for rendering at different scales by providing the ability to turn off small islands that may clutter small-scale views. The data is sourced from Garmin International, Inc. with additional content from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (The World Factbook), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This layer was published in October 2024 and is updated every 12-18 months or as significant changes occur.

World Countries Generalized represents generalized boundaries for the countries of the world. It has fields for official names and country codes. The generalized political boundaries improve draw performance and effectiveness at a global or continental level.This layer is best viewed out beyond a scale of 1:5,000,000.This layer's geography was developed by Esri, Garmin International, Inc., the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (The World Factbook), and the National Geographic Society for use as a world basemap. It is updated annually as country names or significant borders change.

The World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), assesses press freedom in 180 countries and territories. It defines press freedom as journalists’ ability to report independently without political, economic, legal, or social interference and threats to their safety. The Index evaluates five key indicators: political context, legal framework, economic conditions, sociocultural environment, and journalist safety. It reflects the state of press freedom during the previous calendar year but may be updated to account for significant recent events, such as conflicts, coups, or major attacks on journalists.

As of February 2025, **** percent of the population in Burundi did not have internet access. Chad followed, with around **** percent reportedly being offline. North Korea ranked first with an internet penetration of nearly **** percent, as the internet remains blocked for its citizens. Global internet freedom and access The degree of internet freedom varies drastically across countries, with some providing open access and others imposing significant restrictions. In 2024, Iceland was leading worldwide in terms of internet freedom, while Myanmar and China ranked the lowest in the world, with strict government surveillance and censorship. The struggle with limited internet access is particularly evident in Africa, which had the lowest internet penetration rates as of 2024. Global privacy concerns The limitations and restrictions to internet access around the world prove that internet users' privacy is extremely vulnerable. And those who have access to the web are somewhat aware of that. By the third quarter of 2024, around **** percent of internet users expressed concerns about companies misusing their data. This growing awareness of privacy risks is reflected in users’ behaviour. By June 2024, ***** in ***internet users worldwide had already taken measures to protect their online privacy. Additionally, many internet users reported taking further steps, such as enabling multi-factor authentication, for stronger privacy protections.

All cities with a population > 1000 or seats of adm div (ca 80.000)Sources and ContributionsSources : GeoNames is aggregating over hundred different data sources. Ambassadors : GeoNames Ambassadors help in many countries. Wiki : A wiki allows to view the data and quickly fix error and add missing places. Donations and Sponsoring : Costs for running GeoNames are covered by donations and sponsoring.Enrichment:add country name

The average for 2024 based on 174 countries was 56 points. The highest value was in Austria: 79 points and the lowest value was in North Korea: 5 points. The indicator is available from 2005 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2023 based on 193 countries was -0.07 points. The highest value was in Liechtenstein: 1.61 points and the lowest value was in Syria: -2.75 points. The indicator is available from 1996 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The first edition of the World Happiness Report was published on April 1, 2012 (omitted from this dataset), with a methodology that ranks countries based on their Happiness Index. Since its release, this report has garnered global recognition and has been issued on a yearly basis, excluding 2014.

Happiness Index is explained by: • Dystopia (adds 1.83 Index score) + residual • GDP per capita • Social support • Healthy life expectancy • Freedom to make life choices • Generosity • Perceptions of corruption.

Dataset provided in .xlsx and .csv formats. For convenience, dataset is provided with and without NULLs.

Possible use cases & questions: Initially the dataset was meant to be used for visualization practice with BI tools, for example, Tableau.

Clean dataset without nulls: 1) “Yearly average Happiness Index change” 2) “Are there countries who’s happiness was increasing for years, but had a sudden drop in recent years?” 3) “Is there a year(s) where the average world happiness decreased compared to last year?” 4) Geo data visualization.

With nulls: 1) Practice dealing with nulls. 2) “Which countries in which year had no ranking?” Deep dive and exploration into possible causes (for example, war, internal conflict, government or policy changes, diseases) via other sources.

Columns: Country – country name. Year – year of the report. Index – Happiness Index score. Rank – country rank according to their Happiness Index score.

Reports used in this dataset: 1. The 2013 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 156 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2010-2012. Data collected from: https://resources.unsdsn.org/world-happiness-report-2013 2. No report for 2014. 3. The 2015 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 158 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2012-2014. 4. The 2016 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 157 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2013-2015. 5. The 2017 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 155 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2014-2016. 6. The 2018 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 156 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2015-2017. 7. The 2019 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 156 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2016-2018. 8. The 2020 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 153 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2017-2019. 9. The 2021 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 149 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2018-2020. 10. The 2022 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 146 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2019-2021. 11. The 2023 World Happiness Report provides rankings of 137 countries based on their happiness index during the period of 2020-2022.

If not stated differently, data collected from: https://worldhappiness.report/

Licence: CDLA-Permissive-1.0

Notes: Please note that some country names have been shortened, for example, “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China” was shortened to “Hong Kong”.

Additional notes: [name in older Reports, other data sources] = [name used in this file] [data source] • Czech Republic = Czechia [1] • Macedonia = North Macedonia [2] • Turkey = Turkiye [3]

Data sources: 1) https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/country-profiles/czechia_en 2) https://www.strasbourg-europe.eu/macedonia/ 3) https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/turkiye

Update History: 2023-03-14—2023-03-17 – initial data collection for 2013-2022. 2023-03-25 – updated for 2023.

Facebook received 73,390 user data requests from federal agencies and courts in the United States during the second half of 2023. The social network produced some user data in 88.84 percent of requests from U.S. federal authorities. The United States accounts for the largest share of Facebook user data requests worldwide.

Analysis of ‘Countries of the World’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/fernandol/countries-of-the-world on 12 November 2021.

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Context

World fact sheet, fun to link with other datasets.

Content

Information on population, region, area size, infant mortality and more.

Acknowledgements

Source: All these data sets are made up of data from the US government. Generally they are free to use if you use the data in the US. If you are outside of the US, you may need to contact the US Govt to ask. Data from the World Factbook is public domain. The website says "The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission."
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/faqs.html

Inspiration

When making visualisations related to countries, sometimes it is interesting to group them by attributes such as region, or weigh their importance by population, GDP or other variables.

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Abstract: Media freedom has motivated substantial political activism, yet there are surprising gaps in the related academic literature, in part because of a lack of historic and consistent data. We introduce the newly expanded Global Media Freedom Dataset, which includes 196 countries from 1948 to 2012, and demonstrate how it can be used to test previous hypotheses and assumptions about the correlates of media freedom.

Which county has the most Facebook users?

              There are more than 378 million Facebook users in India alone, making it the leading country in terms of Facebook audience size. To put this into context, if India’s Facebook audience were a country then it would be ranked third in terms of largest population worldwide. Apart from India, there are several other markets with more than 100 million Facebook users each: The United States, Indonesia, and Brazil with 193.8 million, 119.05 million, and 112.55 million Facebook users respectively.

              Facebook – the most used social media

              Meta, the company that was previously called Facebook, owns four of the most popular social media platforms worldwide, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram. As of the third quarter of 2021, there were around 3,5 billion cumulative monthly users of the company’s products worldwide. With around 2.9 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the most popular social media worldwide. With an audience of this scale, it is no surprise that the vast majority of Facebook’s revenue is generated through advertising.

              Facebook usage by device
              As of July 2021, it was found that 98.5 percent of active users accessed their Facebook account from mobile devices. In fact, almost 81.8 percent of Facebook audiences worldwide access the platform only via mobile phone. Facebook is not only available through mobile browser as the company has published several mobile apps for users to access their products and services. As of the third quarter 2021, the four core Meta products were leading the ranking of most downloaded mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp amassing approximately six billion downloads.

The average for 2024 based on 180 countries was 44 points. The highest value was in Denmark: 97 points and the lowest value was in North Korea: 4 points. The indicator is available from 1995 to 2024. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.