Freedom in the World 2025
Freedom House · Published 26 February 2025
Latest edition: 26 February 2025 · Next expected: February 2027
This ranking is misleading. The rubric is public but the scores are expert judgements, and the analysts behind them are only partly named, so the coding cannot be reproduced.
What the report claims
Freedom in the World scores countries on 25 indicators of political rights and civil liberties, judged by regional experts against a published rubric. India scores 63 out of 100 in the 2025 edition and is rated Partly Free, down three points from 66 in 2024. There is no ordinal rank in this index; Freedom House publishes scores, not a league table, so the pill shows the 63 out of 100 score rather than a rank. Jammu and Kashmir is listed separately at 27 out of 100. The rubric, the aggregation, and the India narrative are all public.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 6 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 7 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 11 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 5 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 6 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: Freedom House is a private United States nonprofit governed by a board of trustees, with an explicit mission to promote political rights and civil liberties and a public advocacy role. It discloses its major donors and audited financial statements, but United States government grants, including State Department funding and National Endowment for Democracy support, routinely supply more than eighty percent of its revenue. Amounts for the Freedom in the World program alone are not broken out, and the scores are not approved by an external peer review.
Sources: Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2025
Updated 9 November 2026