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Freedoms Business SECURITY SOCIAL Dimension Civil Society Belarus in global Ratings 2020 Freedoms Business SECURITY SOCIAL DIMENsION civil society Freedoms 2020 Freedom in the world 19 /100 The 2020 edition covers developments from January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019. Freedom in the World is an annual global report on people’s access to political rights and civil liberties. The 2020 edition covers developments in 210 countries and territories. The survey and the report is made by the U.S.-based non-profit non-governmental organization Freedom House. Aggregate Score shows: 0=Least Free, 100=Most Free Source: https://freedomhouse.org/country/belarus/freedom-world/2020 Aggregate Score Freedom in the World, 2020: Belarus and neighbors Freedom of the Net 38 /100 The 2020 edition covers developments from June 1, 2019, through May 31, 2020. Score Freedom on the Net is an annual study by non- profit non-governmental organization Freedom House measuring the internet freedom around the globe. In 2019 the methodology was slightly changed and now levels of internet freedom are scored on a scale from 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). Depending on the basics, the nations are then classified as “Free”, “Partly Free”, or “Not Free”. Source: https://freedomhouse.org/country/belarus/freedom-net/2020 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM 153 /180 Published in April, 2020. Rank Published every year since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the World Press Freedom Index is an important advocacy tool based on the principle of emulation between states. The Index ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom available to journalists. It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country. It does not rank public policies even if governments obviously have a major impact on their country’s ranking. All countries have been given scores ranging from 0 to 100, with 0 being the best possible score and 100 the worst. From 0 to 15 points: Good situation From 15.01 to 25 points: Satisfactory situation From 25.01 to 35 points: Problematic situation From 35.01 to 55 points: Difficult situation From 55.01 to 100 points: Very serious situation Source: https://rsf.org/en/belarus BUSINESS 2020 Economic Freedom 61.7 /100 For the 2020 Index, most data covers the second half of 2018 through the first half of 2019. Score The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world’s nations. The Index documents the positive relationship between economic freedom and a variety of positive social and economic goals. Ten economic factors are scored on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). A country’s overall score is derived by averaging ten economic freedoms, with equal weight being given to each. Depending on the scores, the countries’ economies are then classified as “Free” (80-100), “Mostly Free” (70-79.9), “Moderately Free” (60-6.9), “Mostly Unfree” (50-59.9) and “Repressed” (0-49.9). Comments: Belarus’s economic freedom score is 61.7, making its economy the 88th freest in the 2020 Index. Its overall score has increased by 3.8 points, driven by higher scores for fiscal health and financial freedom. Belarus is ranked 41st among 45 countries in the Europe region, and its overall score is well below the regional average and slightly below the world average. Notwithstanding its political problems, economic freedom has risen dramatically in Belarus during the past five years. The economy climbed into the moderately free category for the first time in 2020. Source: http://www.heritage.org/index/country/belarus Legatum Prosperity 69 /167 Published in November 2020. Rank The Legatum Institute’s 2020 Prosperity Index measures prosperity in 167 countries across the globe, which together contain 99.4% of the world’s population. The ranking is based on 294 country-level indicators, grouped into 66 policy-focused elements, used to comprehensively and holistically measure the current state of prosperity. They are grouped into three domains essential to prosperity — Inclusive Societies, Open Economies, and Empowered People. Source: http://www.prosperity.com/rankings Note on methodology: The Prosperity Index methodology is reviewed each year and changes may be made to the placement of indicators, make-up of elements, and data sources used, in order to ensure it is as useful and relevant as possible. This means that the scores and rankings may have changed from what we reported in previous editions of the Prosperity Index. Source: https://www.prosperity.com/globe SECURITY 2020 Global Peace 94 /163 Published in June 2020. Rank The Global Peace Index is the measure of national peacefulness; it ranks 163 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. It captures the absence of violence or the fear of violence across three domains: Safety and Security, Ongoing Conflict, and Militarisation. It is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyse peace and to quantify its economic benefits. Source: https://www.economicsandpeace.org/reports/ Source: https://www. economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/ uploads/2020/08/GPI_2020_web-1.pdf Global Firepower 53 /136 Published in February 2020. Rank The finalized Global Firepower (GFP) 2020 ranking utilizes over 50 individual factors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex score with categories ranging from military might and financials to logistical capability and geography. Source: https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries- listing.asp Note: A perfect PowerIndex score is 0.0000 which is realistically unattainable in the scope of the current GFP formula; the smaller the Index value, the more powerful a nations’s theoretical fighting capability is. crime index 25.01 /100 Published: N/D. Score Crime level Crime Index is an estimation of overall level of crime in a given city or a country. Safety index is, on the other way, quite opposite of crime index. If the city has a high safety index, it is considered very safe. Crime levels lower than 20 are considered as very low, crime levels between 20 and 40 as being low, crime levels between 40 and 60 as being moderate, crime levels between 60 and 80 as being high and finally crime levels higher than 80 as being very high. Source: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/ rankings_by_country.jsp SOCIAL DIMENsION 2020 Social Progress 77.00 /100 Released on September 10, 2020. Score The Social Progress Index measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. Fifty- four indicators in the areas of basic human needs, foundations of wellbeing, and opportunity to progress show the relative performance of nations. The index is published by the nonprofit Social Progress Imperative. Source: http://www.socialprogressindex.com/ Human Development 53 /189 Published on December 15, 2020. Rank The Human Development Index (HDI) was created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. HDI is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. Source: http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/ hdr2020.pdf Global Innovation 64 /131 Released on September 2, 2020. Rank The Global Innovation Index (GII) is an annual publication which features, among others, a composite indicator that ranks countries/ economies in terms of their enabling environment to innovation and their innovation outputs. The 2020 edition of the GII presents the latest global innovation trends and the annual innovation ranking of 131 economies. Source: https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_ pub_gii_2020.pdf civil society 2020 CSO Sustainability 5.5 /7.0 Released in October 2020. Score The Civil Society Organisation Sustainability Index (CSOSI) for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia provides a comprehensive assessment of the capacity of civil society to serve as both a short-term partner in implementing development solutions and a long-term actor in ensuring development outcomes are sustained. The year’s report addresses both advances and setbacks in seven key components or “dimensions” of the sustainability of the civil society sector: legal environment, organizational capacity, financial viability, advocacy, service provision, sectoral infrastructure, and public image. The score for each dimension can range from 1 (most developed) to 7 (most challenged). The CSO Sustainability Index is published through support provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Source: https://www.fhi360.org/sites/default/files/ media/documents/resource-csosi-2019-report- europe-eurasia.pdf The Citizenship ranking 56 /80 Published in January 2020. Rank The Citizenship subranking is a part of the Best Countries rankings, formed in partnership with BAV Group, a unit of global marketing communications company VMLY&R, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The Citizenship subranking had a 16% weight in the overall Best Countries ranking. The Citizenship subranking is based on an equally weighted average of scores from eight country attributes that relate to a country’s citizenship: cares about human rights, cares about the environment, gender equality, progressive, religious freedom, respects property rights, trustworthy and well-distributed political power. Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/ citizenship-rankings The 2020 Best Countries report and rankings are based on how global perceptions define countries in terms of a number of qualitative characteristics, impressions that have the potential to drive trade, travel and investment and directly affect national economies. Sourse: https://www.usnews.com/news/ best-countries/belarus CIVICUS State of Civil Society The CIVICUS Monitor research partners submit country updates every two months.
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