The United States is now the 21st freest country

The Legatum Prosperity Index recently update their rankings of where they rank countries in multiple categories in the image below

And in the category Americans hold most dearest in Personal Freedom the United States dropped from #16 in 2013 to now #21 behind countries like New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the UK, and now even below France. The scores are based on polling data collect from citizens of each country. The United States has had a 17% in Personal Freedom drop since 2009 and many blame President Obama due to his stance on Due Process with Drone Strikes, defying Freedom of the Press, signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 which allows him to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial, expanding the Patriot Act/NSA spying, and so on.

However on the positive side the U.S jumped from #24 in Economy to #17, #13 in Entrepreneurship & Opportunity to #11, #2 in health to #1, #9 in Social Capital to #7 and jumped to #10 overall from #11.

.......but also dropped from #11 in Governance to #12, #5 in Education to #11, and stayed at #31 in Safety and Security.

To see the entire rankings & date for all countries click here and click the country you want to see. And apologies if there is any errors I have a hard time writing a lot due to my dyslexia.

Well good for you.

@cgoodness:

All the Americans be like

@mandarinestro said:

@cgoodness:

All the Americans be like

lol

I like how you said "even below France" like it's some dictatorship lol

didn't mean it like that, i meant it like "and now we are below France also", thats my bad

Haha don't worry, I just thought it was funny. (I'm also dyslexic)

@cgoodness: Pretty sure they'll be #1 on the 'Most Dictators And War Criminals Toppled' leaderboard though...

21..? That's sad for America

Yay?

Beata

@cgoodness: Holy sh*t lol!

how dare you disgrace 'Murica with facts and figures

@mrnoital: Mitt Romney is that you???

Lol, first thing I thought as well. Dirty French Commies...

Even France? I feels for youze.

That is actually really cool to check out. Interesting how disparate the higher ranked countries are in relation to their economies. Most proud of Canada for being still in the top five for education, personal freedom and social capital. Our federal government hasn't destroyed everything we managed to attain, surprisingly.

You are fake *grumble grumble*

America, the land of the sort-of free :/

@ms-lola: if it wasn't for the crappy weather I would love to live there.

@cgoodness: May to October is pretty good. November to April, I have the right to remain silent over.

@ms-lola: well I live in Cali so it's usally around 70 degrees year round :/ I can't live anywhere that reaches below 30 degrees XD

Reminds me of The Newsroom...

That a good thing? I tried to keep it a bit humorous with the gifs

Welp I guess those other 20 countries need a little good old fashion Murican "Liberation" so America can be Number One again.

iceland is 11 XD

Have you ever thought of , i dont know, living inside the sun?

Seems perfect for you ^_^

I see what you did there

Anyone else notice that the two highest ranking countries overall are the only two Western countries not in the EU...

The U.S. is number one in health? Something sounds wrong there.

People hate America so they use something called math and statistics to spout lies. Shame on them!!!!

Freedom is an illusion anyways.

And those statistics never mention how US is number one in taking away freedoms through some falsely justifiable pretense...we're the best at that ;)

I doubt it, the health is good, you just have to be rich to get it ;)

@maccyd: lol fair enough.

Please

Speak Celsius, damn it! When winter hits up here, you Americans and your Fahrenheit crap gets flat out cruel. (:<)