Freedom House FIW 2026 says 54 countries experienced worsening for political rights and civil liberties during 2025. It adds 35 countries had improvements. Just 21% of the world’s population is where countries are rated Free, from 46%. Two decades ago it reached 46 percent. Freedom in the World signals increasing threats and reprisals for political speech created repression effect on speech.
In the United States, an escalation in both legislative dysfunction and executive dominance, growing pressure on people’s ability to engage in free expression, and efforts by the new administration to undermine anticorruption safeguards all contributed to a 3-point decline, bringing the country’s score to 81 out of 100.
freedomhouse.orgunilateral authority. Separately, a multiyear rise in threats and reprisals for political speech as well as government efforts to punish nonviolent expression by noncitizens produced a chilling effect on personal expression more broadly. The new presidential administration also disregarded conflicts of interest and weakened both anticorruption safeguards
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