The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom. Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of individuals and is defined here as negative liberty or the absence of coercive constraint. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human progress, it is worth measuring carefully. The Human Freedom Index is a resource that can help to more objectively observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena, as well as the ways in which the various dimensions of freedom interact with one another.
The report is co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. On a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 represents more freedom, the non-weighted average rating for 159 countries in 2014 was 6.93. The level of global freedom stayed about the same compared to 2008, but almost all countries experienced changes in their ratings, with about half of those increasing their ratings and half decreasing.
| Rank | Country | Personal freedom | Economic freedom | Freedom Index |
| 20 | Lithuania | 8.82 | 7.81 | 8.31 |
| 21 | Estonia | 8.89 | 7.7 | 8.3 |
| 24 | Latvia | 8.9 | 7.57 | 8.24 |
| 43 | Georgia | 7.67 | 7.98 | 7.82 |
| 55 | Armenia | 6.92 | 7.71 | 7.32 |
| 69 | Moldova | 7.27 | 6.72 | 6.99 |
| 83 | Tajikistan | 6.64 | 6.97 | 6.8 |
| 96 | Kazakhstan | 5.93 | 7.35 | 6.64 |
| 98 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.01 | 7.16 | 6.58 |
| 111 | Ukraine | 6.81 | 6 | 6.41 |
| 128 | Azerbaijan | 5.69 | 6.55 | 6.12 |
There was insufficient data for Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
