Freedom House

Political rights and Civil Liberties assessment (Freedom House)

Political Rights and Civil Liberties (Freedom House) Data on political rights for 196 countries between 1972 and 2016. The dataset is a tibble containing 8391 observations across 6 variables: country_name: character string indicating the country name. country_code: character string indicating the country code (ISO3). year: integer indicating the year. ID: character string indicating the country code (ISO3 code) and the year. FH_Political_Rights: numeric variable “measured on a one-to-seven scale, with one representing the highest degree of Freedom and seven the lowest.