These are the least free countries in the world

Freedom House has released its quinquennial status report on levels of freedom across the world.

While 51 countries are rated 'not free', it has named 10 countries as the 'worst of the worst'.

• Central African Republic

• Equatorial Guinea

• Eritrea

• North Korea

• Saudi Arabia

• Somalia

• Sudan

• Syria

• Turkmenistan

• Uzbekistan

While the number of countries rated as free has been increasing, more recently it has plateaued.

Here's what the situation was like 20 years ago:

And here's the present day map overlaid the 1995 one into a gif, in case you were too lazy to scroll back to the top of the page to compare them.

Source: Freedom House

Maps by Statista

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