Rightish American thinktank the Heritage Foundation has published its 2009 Index of Economic Freedom.
It’s notable that the two leading economically-free countries are Singapore and Hong Kong, neither of them paragons of democracy. Many of the other top fifty are proper democracies (although Lichtenstein, despotic feudal relic that it is, doesn’t get rated at all, presumably for fear that it would do too well).
Other democratic paragons in the top half of the table include Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. The one obvious omission from the list – even in the Not Ranked section – is Somalia, a country where government is so small it could be drowned in a thimble, let alone a bathtub.
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