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The Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center created these indexes to provide a snapshot of the current distribution of freedom and prosperity, gain a sense of the evolution of both over the last twenty-eight years at global, regional, and country levels, and facilitate an exploration of the relationship between freedom and prosperity. The Freedom Index includes measures of legal, economic, and political freedom. The Prosperity Index takes a similarly broad view, going beyond the measurement of pure material well-being and also evaluating several other social aspects that we believe are necessary in a prosperous society. Our Prosperity Index has six indicators: income, health, education, environment, minority rights, and inequality.