2024 Atlas: Freedom and Prosperity Around the World

The world has experienced a sequence of significant crises in the past dozen years—the Great Recession in 2009–12, the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the COVID-19 pandemic, and most recently the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war—and governments have substantially increased their reach in economic and social life during these years.

This expansion of the role of government challenges traditional liberal views on the foundations of freedom and necessitates a new look at basic questions.