"On January 13, 2011, Freedom House released its findings from the latest edition of
Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. These declines threaten gains dating to the post–Cold War era in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet bloc. The latest survey hightlights the increasing truculence of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, which has coincided with a growing inability or unwillingness on the part of the world’s democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge."
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Table, Graphs, and Other Supporting Documents – Features graphical representations of global and regional breakdowns for freedom status, political rights and civil liberties ratings for each country and territory, the number and percentage of electoral democracies over the last two decades, and the total number of Free, Partly Free, and Not Free countries for each year since the survey began in 1972. Includes a summary of the
Freedom in the World methodology.
Map of Freedom 2011 – This color-coded map of the world identifies the Free, Partly Free, and Not Free countries in 2010.