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Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021

2021, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021 covers 176 countries. Sweden is highest, at 3.486; Belarus is lowest, at -3.344. The middle country reads 0.885. Against 2020, 110 values changed (52 up, 58 down), the same countries are covered.

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Freedom of Peaceful Assembly · Data for 2021

HighestSweden

3.486

LowestBelarus

-3.344

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.486
2CzechiaCZEEastern Europe3.142
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia3.077
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe2.988
5ItalyITASouthern Europe2.973
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.970
7EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.960
8Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa2.888
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.829
10MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.804
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.796
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe2.769
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.743
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.600
=15Costa RicaCRICentral America2.513
=15Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.513
=17IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.448
=17JapanJPNEastern Asia2.448
19TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2.411
20VanuatuVUTMelanesia2.371
21ArgentinaARGSouth America2.368
22IsraelISRWestern Asia2.302
23FranceFRAWestern Europe2.212
24SeychellesSYCEastern Africa2.200
25MontenegroMNESouthern Europe2.198

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sweden3.486
  2. 2Czechia3.142
  3. 3South Korea3.077
  4. 4Luxembourg2.988
  5. 5Italy2.973

Lowest

  1. 176Belarus-3.344
  2. 175North Korea-3.143
  3. 174Syria-3.026
  4. 173Eritrea-2.960
  5. 172Saudi Arabia-2.789

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.885. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 176 in both
  • 52 · 58rose · fell
  • 66unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2021.

  • 172 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.513. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2021). Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/freedom-of-assembly/2021

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07Questions

Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest freedom of assembly in Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021?

Sweden, at 3.486, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021 cover?

176.

Where can I download Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2021 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2025.

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