Human Rights
Distribution Of Human Rights Index
The variable ranges from 1 (most rights) to 0 (least rights).
Human Rights Index 1789-2022
Human Rights Index 2022
Protected Rights
The top graph captures the extent that people are free from government torture, political killings, and forced labor and enjoying freedoms of property rights, movement, religion, expression, and association. The Global North, in general, has the highest protection of human rights with the Global South generally lower.
Human Rights have seen a set back in recent years.
Globally, human rights are more protected than in the previous centuries. In the 18th century human rights – including physical integrity, private rights, and political liberties – were poorly protected by governments. The 20th century has seen an improvement in human rights with setbacks seen during world wars and in the 1970s.
Although we are currently at a general historically high protection of human rights, recent years have seen a set back in the protection of human rights.
