The index published in Economic Freedom of the World 2025 measures the degree to which people in 165 jurisdictions around the globe are allowed to make their own economic choices. In the year with the most recent data (2023), the most-economically free jurisdictions were Hong Kong (1st), Singapore (2nd), New Zealand (3rd), Switzerland (4th), the United States (5th), Ireland (6th), Australia and Taiwan (tied for 7th), Denmark (9th), and the Netherlands (10th).

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