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Liberia

How well is Liberia respecting people's human rights?

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Quality of Life

Economic and Social Rights

(2019)

Summary score

53.9%

How well is Liberia doing compared to what is possible at its level of income?

Right to

0

% of income adjusted benchmark achieved

HRMI score

100%

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good

Safety from the State

Civil and Political Rights

(2021)

Summary score

6.4

How well is Liberia's government respecting each right?

Right to freedom from

0

Score

10

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good

Empowerment

Civil and Political Rights

(2021)

Summary score

N/A

How well is Liberia's government respecting each right?

Right to

0

Score

10

Very bad

Bad

Fair

Good

Source: HRMI 2022 rightstracker.org

Quality of Life

Liberia scores 53.9% on Quality of Life when scored against the 'Income adjusted' benchmark.

Compared with the other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Liberia is performing worse than average on Quality of Life rights (this comparison is calculated using the 'Income adjusted' benchmark).

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Safety from the State

Liberia's Safety from the State score of 6.4 out of 10 suggests that many people are not safe from one or more of the following: arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment, forced disappearance, execution or extrajudicial killing.

For the civil and political rights we do not have data for enough countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to do a regional comparison. However, compared to the other 40 countries in our sample, Liberia is performing close to average on the right to be safe from the state.

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Empowerment

Empowerment data have not yet been produced for Liberia. We would like to expand our data to the whole world as soon as possible. To learn more about how you can help, please visit this page on the HRMI website.