Asia: Economic Freedom Rating

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

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.