Asia: Economic Freedom Rating

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Hong Kong	90.25
Singapore	87.38
Japan	72.47
Taiwan	71.03
Armenia	70.34
Georgia	69.23
South Korea	67.88
Malaysia	64.54
Thailand	63.49
Mongolia	62.78
Kyrgyztan	61.15
Kazakhstan	60.54
Sri Lanka	58.31
Philippines	56.86
Pakistan	56.84
Cambodia	56.18
Azerbaijan	55.29
Nepal	54.68
Tajikistan	54.46
India	54.21
Indonesia	53.87
China	52.83
Uzbekistan	52.31
Vietnam	49.80
Laos	49.21
Bangladesh	44.92
Turkmenistan	43.36
Myanmar	39.52
North Korea	3.00

Asia: Economic freedom rating

Scores are from 0 to 100, higher scores are more desirable i.e. more conducive to economic growth. The lower the score, the greater the level of government interference in the economy and the less economic freedom a country enjoys.

• Free— 80 - 100;
• Mostly Free— 70 - 79.9;
• Moderately Free— 60 - 69.9;
• Mostly Unfree— 50 to 59.9; and
• Repressed— 0 - 49.9.

Source: The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Statistics in Asia. Asia has surprisingly good house price statistics, though the quality varies greatly. The ex-British colonies tend to have good house price statistics – Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia all have excellent houses price time series, the best being Hong Kong, where the data is arguably richer than in the UK, since there are official rents statistics. However in the Indian sub-continent, only India has house price statistics, and this only in a new series, not yet available on the web.

Japan publishes no house price statistics. Its ex-colonies do better: Korea has a good house price time-series, and Taiwan also has one.

Indonesia has house price statistics, and so does China (both of questionable quality). In Thailand, the Bank of Thailand publishes a time-series. In the Philippines, Colliers produces residential property data.

No house-price time-series are produced in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos.