The Bahamas has the 47th freest economy in the world according to The Heritage Foundation 2010 Index of Economic Freedom.

According to the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom in 2012, Chile has the strongest private property rights in Latin America, scoring 90 on a scale of 100.

In 1986 they introduced the Index of Economic Freedom, which is based on some fifty variables.

All Latin American and Caribbean countries except Cuba and Venezuela enjoyed much more economic freedom than Haiti on the Index of Economic Freedom of 2006.

Hong Kong has remained as the world's freest economy, according to Index of Economic Freedom since the inception of the index in 1995.

Hong Kong has ranked as the world's freest economy in The Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom for 17 consecutive years, since the inception of the index in 1995.

Macedonia has the best economic freedom in the region, according to the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, released in January, 2012 by the conservative U. S. think tank Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal.

* Index of Leading ( Economic ) Indicators ( includes some of the above indicators ).

* 2009: In September 2009, the American Institute for Economic Research ranked Corvallis as the 7th best college town under 250, 000 people in their annual College Destinations Index.

* Index of Economic Freedom

In 1975, annual increases in physician fees were limited by the Medicare Economic Index ( MEI ).

The Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ), is an average of the Current Economic Condition Index ( CECI ) and Consumer Expectation Index ( CEI ).

* Index of Economic Freedom

According to the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, Bahrain has the freest economy in the Middle East and North Africa region and is tenth overall in the world.

The Conference Board publishes a composite Leading Economic Index consisting of ten indicators designed to predict activity in the U. S. economy six to nine months in future.

There are four economic statistics comprising the Index of Coincident Economic Indicators:

* Humboldt Economic Index

According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index, Cato is the 6th most influential US based think tank, ranking 3rd in Economic Policy and 2nd in Social Policy.

* The Index of Economic Freedom – an annual report published by the Journal together with the

" The United Nations ' " Index to Economic and Social Development " also redirects from the " appropriate technology " entry to " sustainable development.

According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom ( of the Heritage Foundation, Fraser Institute and WSJ ), Chile's economy is the 10th freest.

* Knowledge Economic Index

Reporters Without Borders ranked Belarus 154th out of 178 countries in its 2010 Press Freedom Index.

The " Worldwide Press Freedom Index ", published by Reporters Without Borders, lists Maldives as a " very serious situation " ( a judgment also given to Libya, Cuba, and China ).

Reporters Without Borders ranks Romania 58th in its Worldwide Press Freedom Index, the same level as Poland and Hong-Kong.

Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 140th out of 167 countries in its 2005 Press Freedom Index.

Cuba's extensive censorship system was close to North Korea on the 2008 Press Freedom Index.

Press Freedom Index | Freedom of the press in 2009 according to Reporters Without Borders.

* Worldwide Press Freedom Index

Reporters Without Borders consistently ranks China very poorly on media freedoms in their annual releases of the Press Freedom Index, calling the Chinese government as having " the sorry distinction of leading the world in repression of the Internet ".

Also, in their Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007, Reporters Without Borders ranked China 163rd ( or 7th from bottom ) in terms of press freedom.

According to the Reporters Without Borders, Hong Kong enjoys " real press freedom " and ranks the second in Asia after Japan in the Press Freedom Index.

In 1995, Heritage published the first Index of Economic Freedom, co-authored by policy analyst Bryan T. Johnson and Thomas P. Sheehy.

The Economist's Democracy Index as published in December 2011, with greener colours representing more democratic countries and clearly authoritarian countries in dark red.

The following countries are categorized by the Democracy Index 2011 as Full democracy:

In 2011, the city was ranked 9th of major world cities on the Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle-Friendly Cities.

Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 2011.

* Jacobi an Fichte, German Text ( 1799 / 1816 ), with Introduction and Critical Apparatus by Marco Ivaldo and Ariberto Acerbi ( Introduction, German Text, Italian Translation, 3 Appendices with Jacobi's and Fichte's complementary Texts, Philological Notes, Commentary, Bibliography, Index ): Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici-Press, Naples 2011, ISBN 978-88-905957-5-2.

This has led to a high rate of poverty in Ghana, estimated at 27 % of the population in 2011, and an increase in crime, with Ghana jumping from 42nd position in 2011 to 50th position in the 2012 Global Peace Index.

Latvia is ranked the 21st in the world by the Ease of Doing Business Index prepared by the World Bank Group, According to the Human Development Report 2011, Latvia belongs to the group of very high human development countries.

Mauritius ranks 46th out of 182 countries in Transparency International ’ s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2011, third in Africa.

Nepal was ranked 54th worst of 81 ranked countries ( those with GHI > 5. 0 ) on the Global Hunger Index in 2011, between Cambodia and Togo.

Shanghai is the commercial and financial center of mainland China, and ranks fifth in the 2011 edition of the Global Financial Centres Index published by the City of London.

The 2011 Democracy Index marked Tanzania as a " hybrid regime ", ranking it 90th out of 167, an improvement from 92nd the year before.

A report in May 2011 on the Global Peace Index highlighted that had the world been 25 % more peaceful in the past year, the global economy would have benefited by an additional $ 2 trillion, which would account for 2 % of global GDP per annum required to mitigate global warming, cover all costs to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, cancel all public debt held by Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and cover the rebuilding costs for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Madhya Pradesh ranks very low on the Human Development Index value of 0. 375 ( 2011 ), which is below the national average.

In addition, Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School in OKCPS was named the top middle school in the state according to the Academic Performance Index, and recently received the Blue Ribbon School Award, in 2004 and again in 2011.

In September 2011, Indonesia sets world record in the KADIN-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index at 146. 8, an all time high.

The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but faced financial troubles and $ 4 billion dollars in debt, leading to its acquisition by Citigroup in February 2011.

* Nature Publishing Index ( 2011 ) ranked the University of Tokyo 5th in the world in 2011.

In 2011, Autodesk was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fourth consecutive year.

* The song " Index " by UK Artist Steven Wilson ( album Grace For Drowning Kscope 2011 ) was inspired by the novel.