Freedom House 2011 Nations in Transit Arctic Ocean

Beaufort Sea

GREENLAND (DENMARK)

ICELAND

U.S.A.

RUSSIA

Hudson Bay ESTONIA Bering Sea Labrador Sea LATVIA RUSSIA LITHUANIA Gulf of Alaska CANADA BELARUS IRELAND POLAND

CZECH REP. SLOVAKIA UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN HUNGARY MOLDOVA North Atlantic Ocean SLOVENIA ROMANIA CROATIA SERBIA BOSNIA & HERZ. BULGARIA MONTENEGRO UZBEKISTAN GEORGIA KYRGYZSTAN KOSOVO MACEDONIA PORTUGAL ALBANIA ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN TURKMENISTAN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TAJIKISTAN North Pacic Ocean

Survey Findings

Regime Type Country Breakdown BAHAMAS MEXICO Gulf of Mexico The map reflects the findings of Freedom House’s from year to year. Based on the Democracy Score and its CONSOLIDATED DEMOCRACIES 8 Nations in Transit 2011 survey, which assesses the scale of 1 to 7, Freedom House has defined the following status of democratic development in 29 countries from regime types: consolidated democracy (1–2), semi- SEMI-CONSOLIDATED DEMOCRACIES 6 North Pacic Ocean PUERTO RICO (U.S.A.) Central Europe to Central Asia during 2010. consolidated democracy (3), transitional government/ Freedom House introduced a Democracy Score—an hybrid regime (4), semi-consolidated authoritarian CUBA TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR HYBRID REGIMES 5 average of each country’s ratings on all of the indicators regime (5), and consolidated authoritarian regime (6–7). JAMAICA covered by Nations in Transit—beginning with the 2004 ST. KITTS & NEVIS SEMI-CONSOLIDATED AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES 2 edition. The Democracy Score is designed to simplify BELIZE HAITI ANTIGUA & BARBUDA analysis of the countries’ overall progress or deterioration HONDURAS DOM. REP. CONSOLIDATED AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES 8 www.freedomhouse.org DOMINICA Caribbean Sea CAPE VERDE TOTAL 29 GUATEMALA ST. LUCIA MARSHALL GRENADA ST. VINCENT & GRENADINES ISLANDS EL SALVADOR NICARAGUA BARBADOS

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

COSTA RICA MICRONESIA VENEZUELA GUYANA KIRIBATI PANAMA SURINAME NAURU FRENCH GUIANA (FRANCE)

COLOMBIA PALAU

ECUADOR TUVALU GABON RWANDA

CONGO (KINSHASA) BURUNDI CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) PERU INDONESIA PAPUA SOLOMON TANZANIA NEW GUINEA SEYCHELLES ISLANDS

EAST TIMOR BRAZIL COMOROS Indian Ocean ANGOLA SAMOA ZAMBIA VANUATU

MAURITIUS BOLIVIA ZIMBABWE MALAWI FIJI NAMIBIA MADAGASCAR MOZAMBIQUE TONGA PARAGUAY BOTSWANA

AUSTRALIA CHILE South Atlantic Ocean

SWAZILAND ARGENTINA

LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA

URUGUAY South Pacic Ocean Tasman Sea

NEW ZEALAND