Everybody: "We’re number 9! We’re number 9!"
The Heritage Foundation released a list of the best and worst countries on the economic freedom scale. For more on the actual criteria, see the full post. But here are the top 10 lists:
Most Free
- Hong Kong (1st)
- Singapore (2nd)
- Australia (3rd)
- New Zealand (4th)
- Switzerland (5th)
- Canada (6th)
- Ireland (7th)
- Denmark (8th)
- United States (9th)
- Bahrain (10th)
Least Free
- Timor-Leste (170th)
- Iran (171st)
- D.R. of Congo (172nd)
- Libya (173rd)
- Burma (174th)
- Venezuela (175th)
- Eritrea (176th)
- Cuba (177th)
- Zimbabwe (178th)
- North Korea (179th)