WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation today released its 2023 trade freedom scores from the “2023 Index of Economic Freedom.” These scores are a vital part of each nation’s economic freedom ...

WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation today released the 2023 edition of its annual Index of Economic Freedom. The new report shows economic freedom deteriorating across the globe. The world ...

On average, states with higher economic freedom scores experienced faster population growth from 2021 to 2022 than states with lower scores.

The Heritage Foundation has been analyzing the development of economic freedom around the world every year since 1995; the current ranking covers 176 countries and is based on assessments of 12 ...

Economics Countries With Economic Freedom Are Far Better Off Even the poorest citizens of free countries fare better than the middle classes in economically repressive nations. Veronique de Rugy ...

China is in the bottom half, in 107th place out of 184 countries. The top five countries "earned very high economic freedom scores of 80 or more," researchers from the foundation wrote.

In late 2023, Argentina elected a Libertarian president who is actively working to increase economic freedom by cutting regulations, increasing property rights, reducing tariffs, cutting ...

We found that eight of the top 10 freedom scores in our index were for metropolitan areas in Florida. The other two were from Texas. In fact, the top 16 scores went to MSAs located in these two ...

That is to say, in the 19 states (including North Carolina) with Economic Freedom of North America index scores above 5.91, higher levels of education are associated with higher productivity.