New Delhi: India is 24 in a study of the future of free speech in 33 countries.
The Future of Free Speech, which conducted the study, claims to be an independent, nonpartisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University in the US.
The reports seeks to answer how much people around the world facing various types and levels of restrictions support free speech and what specific issues they think people should be allowed to discuss and criticise openly.
Scandinavian countries (Norway, Denmark, and Sweden) and two democratic backsliders (Hungary and Venezuela) show the highest levels of support for free speech. Muslim-majority countries and the Global South show the lowest levels of support, the report finds.
The surveys were developed by The Future of Free Speech and implemented by YouGov and some of its international partners in October 2024. They build on the think-tank’s previous report, ‘Who Cares about Free Speech?’, published in 2021.
India’s overall score is 62.63.
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