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Saturday, March 28, 2026
TopicHuman Freedom Index

Topic: Human Freedom Index

SubscriberWrites: Indian performance in The Human Freedom Index shows its a long way to be a ‘superpower’

India might drop its ranking even worse if they included human freedom abuses during Covid, writes Raghavendar Askani.

Slipping since 2014, India ranks 119 out of 165 in Human Freedom Index by US-Canada think tanks

Annual Human Freedom Index, by Cato Institute in US and Fraser Institute in Canada, has used 82 indicators to rate countries from 2008 to 2019.

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