Freedomhouse

Name: Freedomhouse
Creator: Freedomhouse

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Coverage

Series catalogued

684

Temporal coverage

1978-12-31 – 2025-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

How to cite

Freedom House (e.g., Freedom in the World). Retrieved from https://freedomhouse.org/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download freedomhouse series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/freedomhouse.html
Update cadence: annual
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single file data/clean_full/freedomhouse/freedomhouse.parquet (12 KB), zstd. Schema: series_key (e.g. 'political_rights:Country' / 'civil_liberties:Country' / 'freedom_status:Country'), obs_date(date32, Dec-31), value(float64). One whole-table pq.write_table, no atomic temp.

Full description

Freedom House — Freedom in the World (FIW), 1973–2024. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Source: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world No API key required (direct XLSX download). Coverage: * Political Rights score (1–7, lower = more free), ~210 countries * Civil Liberties score (1–7, lower = more free), ~210 countries * Freedom Status (Free/Partly Free/Not Free) * Electoral Democracy designation (0/1) * Annual, 1973–2024 Run: python jobs/ingest_freedomhouse.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets