2021 PTS Release

 

We are releasing the PTS Scores based on the most recent human rights reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department. The newly released scores cover human rights conditions in countries and territories for the year 2020.



Figure 1: Annual Average Human Rights Scores
Figure 1: Shown are annual averages and 95% confidence intervals for PTS_A (based on Amnesty International's reports), PTS_H (based on Human Rights Watch reports), and PTS_S (based on the U.S. State Department Reports).



This year’s release includes:


All data, as well as the latest version of the codebook PTS-Codebook can be accessed here: Download

The Data Table on the website and the PTS-App have been updated and also contain the latest scores.

Notes:

Last year’s version will still be available in various formats (i.e., .xlsx, .dta, .RData, and .csv) in our Data-Archive.

  • We added the final batch of 108 PTS_S scores based on previously uncoded U.S. State Department reports. As such our data release now provides a PTS_S for every State Department report published since 1976.
    • Andorra 1993
    • Andorra 1998
    • Andorra 2007
    • Andorra 2008
    • Andorra 2009
    • Andorra 2010
    • Andorra 2011
    • Andorra 2013
    • Antigua and Barbuda 2003
    • Antigua and Barbuda 2007
    • Antigua and Barbuda 2013
    • Belize 1982
    • Belize 1984
    • Belize 1987
    • Bhutan 1979
    • Central African Republic 1984
    • Central African Republic 1986
    • Dominica 1980
    • Dominica 1981
    • Dominica 1984
    • Dominica 1985
    • Dominica 1986
    • Dominica 1990
    • Dominica 1993
    • Dominica 1994
    • Dominica 1998
    • Dominica 2004
    • Dominica 2006
    • Dominica 2007
    • Equatorial Guinea 1980
    • Germany 1996
    • Guinea-Bissau 1980
    • Guinea-Bissau 1984
    • Kiribati 2001
    • Kiribati 2002
    • Kiribati 2003
    • Kiribati 2005
    • Kiribati 2007
    • Kiribati 2008
    • Kiribati 2011
    • Kuwait 1980
    • Lebanon 1984
    • Lebanon 1986
    • Lebanon 1988
    • Liechtenstein 2000
    • Liechtenstein 2005
    • Liechtenstein 2007
    • Liechtenstein 2011
    • Liechtenstein 2013
    • Marshall Islands 1999
    • Marshall Islands 2000
    • Marshall Islands 2001
    • Marshall Islands 2004
    • Marshall Islands 2011
    • Marshall Islands 2012
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2000
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2003
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2005
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2006
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2012
    • Micronesia, Federated States of 2013
    • Monaco 1994
    • Monaco 1998
    • Monaco 2004
    • Monaco 2007
    • Monaco 2008
    • Monaco 2011
    • Nauru 1999
    • Nauru 2000
    • Nauru 2003
    • Nauru 2005
    • Nauru 2006
    • Nauru 2011
    • Palau 1999
    • Palau 2008
    • Palau 2009
    • Palau 2012
    • Palau 2013
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis 2003
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis 2009
    • Samoa 2005
    • Samoa 2006
    • San Marino 2003
    • San Marino 2012
    • Slovenia 1993
    • Slovenia 1994
    • Slovenia 1995
    • Tonga 1999
    • Tonga 2001
    • Tonga 2002
    • Tonga 2004
    • Tonga 2006
    • Tonga 2007
    • Tonga 2008
    • Tuvalu 1994
    • Tuvalu 1996
    • Tuvalu 2001
    • Tuvalu 2006
    • Tuvalu 2011
    • Western Sahara 1996
    • Western Sahara 1997
    • Western Sahara 1998
    • Western Sahara 2000
    • Western Sahara 2003
    • Western Sahara 2004
    • Western Sahara 2006
    • Western Sahara 2008
    • Western Sahara 2010

Again, past releases (i.e., 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020) of the PTS dataset can be found here: Data-Archive