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Freedom in the World 2008

Notes for countries with elections last held in 2003 or earlier, and without article on next election existing already:

2002

•  Republic of the Congo's presidential elections in 2009.
•  Equatorial Guinea's presidential elections in 2010.

2003

•  Guinea's presidential elections in late 2008.
•  Yemen's parliamentary elections in mid-2009.
•  Rwanda's presidential elections in mid-2010.

Contents 1 Not free 1.1 Average 7.0 1.2 Average 6.5 1.3 Average 6.0 1.4 Average 5.5 2 Partly free 2.1 Average 5.0 2.2 Average 4.5 2.3 Average 4.0 2.4 Average 3.5 2.5 Average 3.0 3 Free 3.1 Average 2.5 3.2 Average 2.0 3.3 Average 1.5 3.4 Average 1.0 4 Special cases 5 Dictators over 70

[edit] Not free

[edit] Average 7.0

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Cuba	Raúl Castro	2008	7/7	communist	June 31, 1931 (1931-06-31) (age 76)	2008 parl. irrelevant due to undemocratic communism
N	North Korea	Kim Jong-il	1994	7/7	communist	February 16, 1941 (1941-02-16) (age 67)	heir apparent: Kim Jong-chul — 2003 parl. irrelevant due to undemocratic communism
N	Libya	Muammar al-Qaddafi	1969	7/7	personalistic	ca. January 1, 1942 (1942-01-01) (age 66)	no elections
N	Myanmar	Than Shwe	1992	7/7	military	February 2, 1933 (1933-02-02) (age 75)	1990 parl. aborted by military, currently in transition phase
N	Somalia	warlords		7/7			currently failed state — no elections yet
N	Sudan	Omar al-Bashir	1989	7/7	military	January 1, 1944 (1944-01-01) (age 64)	2000 pres. and parl. fraudulent, currently in transition phase
N	Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow	2007	7/7	personalistic	January 1, 1957 (1957-01-01) (age 51)	2004 parl., 2007 pres. and parl. irrelevant due to single-party structure
N	Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov	1991	7/7	personalistic	January 30, 1938 (1938-01-30) (age 70)	2004–2005 parl. and 2007 pres. fraudulent

[edit] Average 6.5

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	1994	7/6	personalistic	August 30, 1954 (1954-08-30) (age 53)	2004 parl. and 2006 pres. fraudulent
N	Chad	Idriss Déby	1990	7–/6	personalistic	ca. January 1, 1952 (1952-01-01) (age 56)	two-term-limit removed in 2005 — 2002 parl. and 2006 pres. fraudulent
N	China	Hu Jintao	2002	7/6	communist	December 21, 1942 (1942-12-21) (age 65)	2007–2008 parl. irrelevant due to undemocratic communism
N	Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Mbasogo	1979	7/6	personalistic	June 5, 1942 (1942-06-05) (age 66)	2002 pres. and 2008 parl. fraudulent
N	Eritrea	Isaias Afewerki	1993	7/6	personalistic	February 2, 1945 (1945-02-02) (age 63)	no elections yet
N	Laos	Choummaly Sayasone	2006	7/6	communist	ca. January 1, 1931 (1931-01-01) (age 77)	2006 parl. irrelevant due to undemocratic communism
N	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah of Saudi Arabia	2005	7/6	monarch	January 1, 1924 (1924-01-01) (age 84)	took over from his half-brother — no elections
N	Syria	Bashar al-Assad	2000	7/6	dominant-party	September 11, 1965 (1965-09-11) (age 42)	Ba'ath Party since 1963 — 2007 parl. and pres. fraudulent
N	Zimbabwe	Robert Mugabe	1980	7/6	personalistic	February 21, 1924 (1924-02-21) (age 84)	2008 pres. and parl. possibly okay

[edit] Average 6.0

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Cameroon	Paul Biya	1982	6/6	personalistic	February 13, 1933 (1933-02-13) (age 75)	2004 pres. and 2007 parl. fraudulent
N	Côte d'Ivoire	Laurent Gbagbo	2000	7/5+			in process of democratization — 2000 pres. and 2001 parl. possibly okay but irrelevant due to intermittent coup
N	Iran	Ali Khamenei	1989	6/6	theocratic	July 15, 1939 (1939-07-15) (age 68)	2005 pres., 2006 parl. and 2008 parl. fraudulent
N	Iraq			6/6			2005 parl. okay
N	Swaziland	Mswati III of Swaziland	1986	7/5	monarch	April 19, 1968 (1968-04-19) (age 40)	2003 parl. fraudulent and irrelevant
N	Tunisia	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali	1987	7–/5	dominant-party	September 3, 1936 (1936-09-03) (age 71)	Democratic Constitutional Rally since 1992 — 2004 pres. and parl. fraudulent
N	Vietnam	Nong Duc Manh	2001	7/5	communist	September 11, 1940 (1940-09-11) (age 67)	2007 parl. irrelevant due to undemocratic communism

[edit] Average 5.5

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Algeria	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	1999	6/5	personalistic	March 2, 1937 (1937-03-02) (age 71)	2004 pres. and 2007 parl. possibly okay
N	Angola	José Eduardo dos Santos	1979	6/5	dominant-party	August 28, 1942 (1942-08-28) (age 65)	1992 pres. and parl. possibly okay, but irrelevant decades later
N	Azerbaijan	Ilham Aliyev	2003	6/5	personalistic	December 24, 1961 (1961-12-24) (age 46)	took over from his father, population grows unrestful — 2003 pres. and 2005 parl. fraudulent
N	Bhutan	Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck	2006	6/5			king has democratized the country — 2007–08 and 2008 parl. okay
N	Brunei	Hassanal Bolkiah	1967	6/5	monarch	July 15, 1946 (1946-07-15) (age 61)	no elections
N	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Joseph Kabila	2000	5/6			took over from his father, possible democratization — 2006 pres., 2006 parl. and 2007 Senate possibly okay
N	Republic of the Congo	Denis Sassou-Nguesso	1997	6/5	personalistic	ca. January 1, 1943 (1943-01-01) (age 65)	2002 pres. and 2007 parl. fraudulent
N	Cambodia	Hun Sen	1985	6/5	dominant-party	April 4, 1951 (1951-04-04) (age 57)	Cambodian People's Party since 1993 — 2003 parl. fraudulent
N	Egypt	Hosni Mubarak	1981	6/5	dominant-party	May 4, 1928 (1928-05-04) (age 80)	National Democratic Party since 1978 — 2005 pres. and 2005 parl. fraudulent
N	Guinea	Lansana Conté	1984	6/5	personalistic	ca. January 1, 1934 (1934-01-01) (age 74)	2002 parl. and 2003 pres. fraudulent
N	Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	1990	6/5	personalistic	July 6, 1940 (1940-07-06) (age 67)	2005 pres. and 2007 parl. fraudulent
N	Kosovo			6/5			still under International Civilian Representative for Kosovo/International Steering Group for Kosovo, last ranked as an occupied territory, 2007 parl. okay, should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
N	Maldives	Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	1978	6/5	personalistic	December 29, 1937 (1937-12-29) (age 70)	2003 pres. and 2005 parl. fraudulent, democratisation plans?
N	Oman	Qaboos of Oman	1970	6/5	monarch	November 18, 1940 (1940-11-18) (age 67)	2007 parl. possibly okay but irrelevant
N	Pakistan	Pervez Musharraf	2001	6/5	personalistic	August 11, 1943 (1943-08-11) (age 64)	2008 parl. possibly okay
N	Qatar	Hamad bin Khalifa	1995	6/5	monarch	ca. January 1, 1950 (1950-01-01) (age 58)	no elections yet
N	Russia	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev	1999 2008	6/5	personalistic	October 7, 1952 (1952-10-07) (age 55) September 14, 1965 (1965-09-14) (age 42)	2007 parl. and 2008 pres. fraudulent
N	Rwanda	Paul Kagame	1994	6/5	dominant-party	October 23, 1957 (1957-10-23) (age 50)	Rwandan Patriotic Front since 1994 — 2003 pres. and 2003 parl. fraudulent
N	Tajikistan	Emomali Rahmonov	1994	6/5	personalistic	October 5, 1952 (1952-10-05) (age 55)	2005 parl. and 2006 pres. fraudulent
N	United Arab Emirates	Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan	2004	6/5	monarch	January 1, 1948 (1948-01-01) (age 60)	took over from his father — 2006 parl. far from democratic, but a first step in the right direction

[edit] Partly free

[edit] Average 5.0

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Afghanistan			5/5			2004 pres. and 2005 parl. possibly okay
N	Bahrain	Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah	2002	5/5	monarch	January 28, 1950 (1950-01-28) (age 58)	trying to strive for democratization — 2006 parl. okay?
	Central African Republic			5/5–			2005 pres. and parl. possibly okay
N	Djibouti	Ismail Omar Guelleh	1999	5/5	dominant-party	June 27, 1947 (1947-06-27) (age 60)	People's Rally for Progress since 1997 — 2005 pres. and 2008 parl. fraudulent
N	Ethiopia	Meles Zenawi	1995	5/5	dominant-party	May 8, 1955 (1955-05-08) (age 53)	EPRDF since 1991 — 2005 parl. fraudulent
N	Fiji			6/4			rather unstable democracy — 2006 parl. and 2006 pres. okay
N	Gabon	Omar Bongo	1967	6/4	personalistic	December 30, 1935 (1935-12-30) (age 72)	2005 pres. and 2006 parl. fraudulent
N	Thailand			6+/4			apparently still some slight problems with functional democracy under Thaksin Shinawatra's government; 2006 Thailand coup d'état resulted in a benevolent dictatorship under General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, 2007 and 2008 parl. apparently okay
N	Togo	Faure Gnassingbé	2005	5+/5	personalistic	June 6, 1966 (1966-06-06) (age 42)	took over from his father — 2005 pres. possibly fraudulent, 2007 parl. possibly okay
N	Yemen	Ali Abdullah Saleh	1978	5/5	dominant-party	March 21, 1942 (1942-03-21) (age 66)	General People's Congress since 1990 — 2003 parl. and 2006 pres. fraudulent, but possibly partially okay

[edit] Average 4.5

dm	country	dictator	since	score	type	birthdate	notes
N	Armenia	Serzh Sargsyan	2008	5/4	personalistic	June 30, 1954 (1954-06-30) (age 53)	democracy still rather unstable, despite noteworthy democratic tendencies — 2007 parl. and 2008 pres. partially fraudulent
N	Bangladesh			5–/4			emerging democracy since 1990, still serious problems
	Burundi			4/5			2005 parl. and pres. possibly okay
N	Gambia	Yahya Jammeh	1994	5/4	personalistic	May 25, 1965 (1965-05-25) (age 43)	serious problems — 2006 pres. and 2007 parl. fraudulent
	Haiti			4/5			2006 pres. and parl. okay
N	Jordan	Abdullah II of Jordan	1999	5/4	monarch	January 30, 1962 (1962-01-30) (age 46)	2007 parl. fraudulent and irrelevant as monarchy is absolute
N	Kyrgyzstan			5/4			2005 pres. and 2007 parl. likely fraudulent
N	Lebanon			5/4			under strong influence of Syrian dictatorship — 2005 parl. okay
N	Morocco	Mohammed VI of Morocco	1999	5/4	monarch	August 21, 1963 (1963-08-21) (age 44)	slow democratization possible? — 2007 parl. possibly okay but irrelevant as monarchy is absolute
N	Nepal			5/4			2008 Const. Ass. likely okay
N	Singapore	Lee Hsien Loong	2004	5/4	dominant-party	February 10, 1952 (1952-02-10) (age 56)	People's Action Party since 1959 — 2006 parl. fraudulent
N	Uganda	Yoweri Museveni	1986	5/4	personalistic	ca. January 1, 1944 (1944-01-01) (age 64)	2006 pres. and parl. likely fraudulent

[edit] Average 4.0

dm	country	score	notes
N	Burkina Faso	5/3	personalistic Blaise Compaoré (February 3, 1951 (1951-02-03) (age 57)) since 1987 — 2005 pres. and 2007 parl. obviously fraudulent next elections in 2010, will not be allowed to stand for re-election[1]
	Comoros	4–/4	still considerable problems after the country almost split in 1997
	Georgia	4–/4–	strong democratic improvements, more to be expected as  European Union accession becomes a possibility
N	Guinea-Bissau	4/4	still serious problems after recent coup and redemocratization — 2005 pres. and 2004 parl. okay
N	Kuwait	4/4	monarch Sabah al-Sabah (ca. January 1, 1929 (1929-01-01) (age 79)) since 2006 — 2008 parl. possibly okay
N	Malaysia	4/4	still problems with combining democracy & human rights and Islam — 2008 parl. possibly okay
	Malawi	4/4–	serious problems
	Mauritania	4+/4	2006 and 2007 parl., 2007 pres. okay
N	Nigeria	4/4	very serious problems, corruption — 2007 parl. and pres. possibly okay
	Sri Lanka	4/4	situation a bit unclear
N	Tonga	5/3	monarch George Tupou V (May 4, 1948 (1948-05-04) (age 60)) since 2006 very serious problems, limits to press freedom, democratisation possible? — 2008 parl. okay, but unelected members not okay heir apparent: Lavaka Ata ʻUlukālala, his younger brother
	Venezuela	4/4	situation rather unclear

[edit] Average 3.5

dm	country	score	notes
N	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4–/3	strong democratic improvements, more to be expected as  European Union accession comes closer; still under High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina — 2006 pres. and parl. okay
	Guatemala	3/4	serious problems, corruption
N	Kenya	4–/3	haed been taking significant steps towards full democracy, but 2007 pres. highly controversial
	Liberia	3/4	still in process of democratization
	Madagascar	4/3	situation a bit unclear
	Moldova	3/4	some democratic improvements, more to be expected as  European Union accession becomes a possibility
	Niger	3/4–	generally stable democracy
N	Philippines	4–/3	apparently still serious problems with democracy
N	Solomon Islands	4/3	rather unstable democracy — 2006 parl. okay, but political system unstable
N	Tanzania	4/3	situation rather unclear — 2005 pres. and parl. likely fraudulent
	Timor-Leste	3/4	emerging democracy, has yet to stabilize
	Zambia	3/4	civil disobedience and wide-spread protests prevented personalistic dictatorship still considerable problems, corruption — 2006 pres. and 2006 parl. possibly okay

[edit] Average 3.0

country	score	notes
Albania	3/3	should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
Bolivia	3/3	civil strife
Colombia	3/3	civil strife, bordering on civil war
Ecuador	3/3	unrest due to poverty
Honduras	3/3	some problems with democracy
Macedonia	3/3	should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
Montenegro	3/3	semi-dictator Milo Đukanović's democratic spirit is questionable, should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
Mozambique	3/3+	last elections contested
Nicaragua	3/3	generally rather stable democracy, a number of issues
Papua New Guinea	3/3	generally stable democracy, some issues
Paraguay	3/3	lack of democratic tradition, corruption
Seychelles	3/3	situation a bit unclear
Sierra Leone	3+/3	re-emerging democracy after civil war
Turkey	3/3	should improve as  European Union accession comes closer

[edit] Free

[edit] Average 2.5

country	score	notes
El Salvador	2/3
Guyana	2/3
India	2/3
Indonesia	2/3	only recently became democratic, still has problems
Jamaica	2/3
Lesotho	2/3	apparently still some slight problems with functional democracy
Mali	2/3–
Mexico	2/3
Peru	2/3
Senegal	2/3
Serbia	3/2	should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
Ukraine	3/2	strong democratic improvements, more to be expected as  European Union accession becomes a possibility

[edit] Average 2.0

country	score	notes
Antigua and Barbuda	2/2
Argentina	2/2
Benin	2/2
Botswana	2/2
Brazil	2/2
Croatia	2/2	should improve as  European Union accession comes closer
Dominican Republic	2/2
Mongolia	2/2
Namibia	2/2
Romania	2/2	European Union
Samoa	2/2
São Tomé and Príncipe	2/2
South Africa	2/2
Suriname	2/2
Trinidad and Tobago	2/2	situation a bit unclear
Vanuatu	2/2

[edit] Average 1.5

country	score	notes
Belize	1/2
Bulgaria	1/2	European Union
Ghana	1/2
Greece	1/2	European Union
Grenada	1/2
Israel	1/2
Japan	1/2
South Korea	1/2
Latvia	2–/1	European Union
Mauritius	1/2
Monaco	2/1
Panama	1/2
Taiwan	2/1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2/1

[edit] Average 1.0

country	score	notes
Andorra	1/1
Australia	1/1
Austria	1/1	European Union
Bahamas	1/1
Barbados	1/1
Belgium	1/1	European Union
Canada	1/1
Cape Verde	1/1
Chile	1/1
Costa Rica	1/1
Cyprus	1/1	European Union
Czech Republic	1/1	European Union
Denmark	1/1	European Union
Dominica	1/1
Estonia	1/1	European Union
Finland	1/1	European Union
France	1/1	European Union
Germany	1/1	European Union
Hungary	1/1	European Union
Iceland	1/1
Ireland	1/1	European Union
Italy	1/1	European Union
Kiribati	1/1
Liechtenstein	1/1
Lithuania	1/1	European Union
Luxembourg	1/1	European Union
Malta	1/1	European Union
Marshall Islands	1/1
Federated States of Micronesia	1/1
Nauru	1/1
Netherlands	1/1	European Union
New Zealand	1/1
Norway	1/1
Palau	1/1
Poland	1/1	European Union
Portugal	1/1	European Union
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1/1
Saint Lucia	1/1
San Marino	1/1
Slovakia	1/1	European Union
Slovenia	1/1	European Union
Spain	1/1	European Union
Sweden	1/1	European Union
Switzerland	1/1
Tuvalu	1/1
United Kingdom	1/1	European Union
United States	1/1
Uruguay	1/1

[edit] Special cases

• not included:  Vatican City
• included as an occupied territory:
  •  Palestinian Authority (Israeli-administered: 6/5; not free, Palestinian-administered: 4/6-; partly free) — 2005 pres. and 2006 parl. okay
  •  Western Sahara (7/6; not free) — no functional elections yet, de facto single-party due to occupation
• included as a special territory:
  •  Hong Kong (5/2; partly free) — 2004 parl. partly okay, but electoral system not okay; 2017 and 2020 elections to be okay?[2]
  •  Macau (6?/4?; partly free) — 2005 parl. partly okay, but electoral law not okay
• unrecognised countries:
  •  Northern Cyprus — 2005 parl. and pres. certainly okay
  •  Somaliland — 2003 pres. and 2005 parl. possibly okay
  •  Nagorno-Karabakh — 2005 parl. and 2007 pres. possibly okay
  •  Abkhazia — 2005 pres. and 2007 parl. fraudulent
  •  South Ossetia — 2006 pres. fraudulent
  •  Transnistria — 2005 parl. and 2006 pres. fraudulent

[edit] Dictators over 70

• Robert Mugabe, February 21, 1924 (1924-02-21) (age 84)
• Hosni Mubarak, May 4, 1928 (1928-05-04) (age 80)
• Raúl Castro, June 3, 1931 (1931-06-03) (age 77)
• Than Shwe, February 2, 1933 (1933-02-02) (age 75)
• Paul Biya, February 13, 1933 (1933-02-13) (age 75)
• Lansana Conté, ~January 1, 1934 (1934-01-01) (age 74)
• Omar Bongo, December 30, 1935 (1935-12-30) (age 72)
• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, September 3, 1936 (1936-09-03) (age 71)
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika, March 2, 1937 (1937-03-02) (age 71)
• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, December 29, 1937 (1937-12-29) (age 70)
• Islom Karimov, January 30, 1938 (1938-01-30) (age 70)