Human Freedom Index 2025. The human freedom index (hfi) presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. Switzerland ranks first with a human freedom index of 9.11, followed closely by new zealand at 9.01 and denmark at 8.98.

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. It captures the extent to which people are free from government torture, political killings, and forced labor;